#systems

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #systems




In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.


Alan Perlis


#bird #early #early bird #makes #often

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.


Friedrich Durrenmatt


#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.


Leland Stanford


#between #conflict #exists #industrial #real

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.


Rasheed Ogunlaru


#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.


Dave Parnas


#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else.


Nick Harkaway


#choice #corporations #economics #information #power

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.


Erol Ozan


#brain #computer #computers #computing #consciousness

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.


John T. Flynn


#economic #former #insist #our #political

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.


Toshihiko Fukui


#allocating #among #channeling #corporate #crucial

Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.


Bill Joy


#displays #document #large #preparation #require