#systems

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #systems




The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.


John Stuart Mill


#science #systems #imagination

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.


Rudolf Arnheim


#created #general #however #itself #man

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.


Ethan Allen


#ever #incompatible #interest #law #nature

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.


Henri Frederic Amiel


#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!


Peter Asher


#different #even #made #primitive #really

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.


Peter L. Berger


#culture #doing #economic #entire #globalization

The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans.


Bryant McGill


#humanity #systems #freedom

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.


Steven Biko


#birth #black #consciousness #country #dignity

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.


Tim Bishop


#economy #healthy #integral #nation #new

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.


Dorothy Denning


#attack #complex #controlling #damage #desired