| "Thanks to the Interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." »Charles Kuralt |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor." »Unknown |
| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich |
| "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society." »Doris Lessing |
| "What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." »Edward C. Banfield |
| ".....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget" »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." »Barbra Streisand |
| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." »W. Edwards Deming |
| "Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." »Vaclav Havel |
| "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself." »Pierre Charron |
| "As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." »John Keats |
| "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator." »Anonymous |
| "I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's." »William Blake |
| "No moral system can rest solely on authority." »A. J. Ayer |
| "History is a vast early warning system." »Norman Cousins |
| "Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system." »Stuart Stevens |
| "It's time for the human race to enter the solar system." »Dan Quayle |
| "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate." »Mark B. Cohen |
| "The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately." »Russell L Ackoff |
| "The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system." »Quentin |
| "The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people." »Phil Gramm |
| "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." »Dave Barry |
| "People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die." »Saki |
| "It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas |
| "Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match." »Isaac Asimov |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
