System Quotes

“Wherever there is a system, there is a risk of it being observed, and this observation may reduce the entropy of the system.”

“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”

“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”

“The whole system is based on confidence. The moment the confidence is gone, the whole system collapses.”

“Moloch is the personification of the forces that coerce competing systems into a race to the bottom.”

“A relationship is a pattern of interaction.”

“We need to understand patriarchy as a system of power that affects us all.”

“Every organized being forms a whole, a unique and closed system, whose parts mutually correspond and concur to the same definitive action by a reciprocal reaction.”

“I'd do it again. I was exploring a system. I was a neophyte. I was learning a system. The phone company is a system. A computer is a system, do you understand? If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system.”

“Work ON your business, not IN your business.”

“There is no 'thing' without a system. There is no 'thing' without a context.”

“The beauty of the system is that it will fight to stay the same.”

“The idea that there are 'systems' which are represented by state vectors, and 'apparatus' which are not, is surely something that we must grow out of.”

“Thought is a system.”

“Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.”

“Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.”

“You know, you can't be a part of the machine and then complain about it.”

“The phone company is nothing more than a computer.”

“Social systems are not natural systems whose parts are in a state of mutual dependence; they are, on the contrary, riddled with conflict and contradiction.”

“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory.”