#systems

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#science #systems #science

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#microsoft #monopoly #operating #operating systems #over

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american #american politics #been #buy #economic

There is a constant need for new systems and new software. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#constant need #need #new #software #systems

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#becomes #chaos #develop #economies #educate

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#been #biological #build #design #fact

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#back #call #came #canadian #combat

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#between #communications #cultural #cultural issues #due

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#create #however #physicists #scientists #systems