#systems

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#consider #disarmament #first #first step #freezing

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#camps #citizens #concentration #countries #intern

We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#among #clean #clean air #come #differences

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems. ↗

— Jon Postel

#get #high #home #over #speed

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #life #my life #soviet #spent

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

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#access #cannot #far #privileged #removed

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#different #farmers #internet #irrigation #looks