496 Systems Quotes for You to Enjoy

Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. Jamais Cascio

Change Systems Environment Involves Making Intentional Order Large-Scale Humans

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. James Fenimore Cooper

Systems General Exceptions Particular Effects Appreciated

Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide. James G. Stavridis

Day Every Day Intelligence Key Military Every Worldwide Critical Systems Visualization Data Delivery Mission Role Used Communities Play

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time. James Gleick

I think a lot of things will be self-correcting, even in America. After all, human societies are essentially self-organizing emergent systems. The catch is, how much disorder will we have to endure while this re-self-organizing process occurs. James Howard Kunstler

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes. James Patterson

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. Jane Leavy

Art Sports World Practice Reading Resonance Programs Hierarchical Systems Bay Kind Security Football Clearance Term Particular Like Most Report Where Repressive Scripted Fields Requires Organized Medical Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay Plays

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time. Jane Poynter

Life Today Time World Transformation Incredible Our Systems Would Seeing Call Around Lot Intentionally Whether Species Designed

As someone who wasn't heavily supported or resourced as a young person when I was going through the hardest times of my life, I'm used to operating outside of systems. The trans movement has always been that way. Janet Mock

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope. Jean-Pierre Raffarin

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different. Jed Mercurio

Drama Systems Very America Different Creatively Compete Two British

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. Jeffrey Kluger

Differences Systems Ideal Thus Studying Between Since Genetic Come Identical Likely Operating Learned Operating Systems Matching Been Womb Lab Traits Behaviors Any Difference Personalities Acquired Meaningful Inherited Twins Innate

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around. Jennifer Pahlka

The sun doesn't always shine; the wind doesn't always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate. Jens Martin Skibsted

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable. Jerome Powell

Failure Management Dangerous Opportunities Independence Ensure Has-Been Systems Something Risk Risk Management Takers Generator Limit Revenue Discourage Been Accountable May Controls Which Board Certain Shown Functions

It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services. Jerry A. Webman

Class Entrepreneur Demanding Build Suitable Easier Systems Indian More Computer Roads Up Than Getting Middle Middle Class Much Transportation Company Population Basic Services Start Start-Up

Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems, as well as possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects. Joel Fuhrman

Family Vegetables Beneficial Possible Systems Immune Onions Along Well Make Make Up Up Effects Which Garlic Cardiovascular

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers. John Fowler

Work Tools Sun Enterprise Systems More Scheme Environment Developers Development Role Grand Produce Much Programmers

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. John Hickenlooper

Experience People Accountability Holding Else Everyone Everyone Else Systems Running Some Had Talented Talented People None Were Hiring Very Accountable Anywhere Them Creating Who Near

Television shows are not like cars or operating systems, and they are not best made by engineers or coders in the same assembly line manner as consumer products which need to be of uniform size, shape, and quality. John Landgraf

Best Quality Car Made Television Television Shows Systems Shape Consumer Like Operating Operating Systems Line Same Size Which Uniform Manner Engineers Products Assembly Assembly Line Shows Need

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally. John M. Grunsfeld

Life Science Perspective My Life Engineering Spending Pants Astronaut Systems Learned NASA Years Get Depended Literally Gained Activities Seat

Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar systems around most stars. And the fact that we're here on a planet, Earth, means that it's likely there's lots of other Earths out there. John M. Grunsfeld

Solar Stars Every Other Virtually Earth Out Systems Fact Most Likely Because Around Discovered Hubble Lots Planet Planet Earth Planets Means Star Now Here

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics. John McAfee

Politics Technology Increasing Our System Recognizing Systems Impact Structure Only Economic Very American Social Should Applauded

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