#stems

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. ↗

— Bill Joy

#going #lot #more #sophisticated #systems

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #indistinguishable #itself #organism #sense

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#actually #anticipating #because #evolution #future

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. ↗

— Karl Rove

#different #europe #got #perfect #select

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#america #anybody #confront #cunning #fact

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. ↗

— George Stigler

#determining #efficient #enterprises #i #integration

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#corporate #domain #environmentalism #exclusive #govern

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. ↗

— Don Marquis

#devil #figures #going #keep #male