| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "History is a vast early warning system." »Norman Cousins |
| "No moral system can rest solely on authority." »A. J. Ayer |
| "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 |
| "The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate." »Mark B. Cohen |
| "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "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 |
| "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin |
| "Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity." »Pope John Paul II |
| "We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized." »Elliot Wayne Eisner |
| "Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts." »Eugene McCarthy |
| "In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office." »Walter Frederick Mondale |
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