System Quotes
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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
Nina Totenberg
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These affiliations and assignment systems will, for the players, provide them with the opportunity to get playing time.
Stu Jackson
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Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.
Wietse Venema
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The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
Allen Newell
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Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
Bertrand Meyer
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Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
Strom Thurmond
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Gerrit Smith
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I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?
Ayobami Adebayo
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
William Blake
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If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
Sigourney Weaver
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My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley
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The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
Seth Godin
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He can still play, he can go out there and put up numbers with the best of them. The sooner he becomes active within our system, the better it's going to be for us.
Eddy Curry
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In Obama terminology, “hope” is the possibility that power may be wrested from society’s “haves” by infiltrating their political system.
Andrew C. McCarthy
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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
Regina Spektor
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There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.
Paul Parker
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The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game.
James "Jim" Seals
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I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
George Tillman, Jr.
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When I read it my blood began to boil again. It drove home how crass that whole system was.
Eliot Spitzer
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The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace.
Brien McMahon
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The justice system is now just a system.
Bob Enyart
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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
Bill Gates
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
Steve Jobs
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There a certain kind of vague doublespeak took hold and became part of everyday conversations. A person might say they worked at a “post office box” developing a “device,” but their meaning was immediately clear. In this way the Soviet population was co-opted into becoming a part of the system.
Andrei Soldatov