#systems

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #systems




A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.


Erol Ozan


#brain #computer #computers #computing #consciousness

Whether it means prizing the value of lessons learned, building games into your creative process, or getting gifts upon certain milestones of achievement, self-derived rewards make a big difference…You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.


Scott Belsky


#self-motivation #motivational

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.


Howard Pattee


#philosophy #science #systems #nature

Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.


Lewis Fry Richardson


#science #systems #science

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.


Arthur Stanley Eddington


#science #systems #science

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.


Annie Dillard


#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.


Melissa Bean


#businesses #data #entrepreneurial #even #foreign

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.


Peter L. Berger


#be true #been #capitalism #democratic #economy

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.


Miguel de Unamuno


#beliefs #elude #human #like #natural

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.


Carter Burwell


#expect #help #hurt #systems #tragedy