System Quotes

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

“A good legal system should be predictable.”

“The arbitrary nature of the sign explains in turn why the social fact alone can create a linguistic system.”

“The system is the problem. It's a system of legalized bribery.”

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”

“Justice is a commodity that is bought and sold.”

“The first step in saving the environment is to see it as a system of systems.”

“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”

“You can't have a file server without a file system.”

“Emergence means complex systems and complexity, to be sure, but it also means that the whole is not only more than but also very different from the sum of its parts.”

“The least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system’s behavior.”

“A system just does what it does. It can't be blamed for that. It is structured to do what it does, and that's all.”

“The rich have gotten rich by rigging the system.”

“The corruption is not the exception, it's the norm.”

“The old boy network is still very much in place.”

“Wisdom is the knowledge of the larger interactive system.”

“The solution to a problem changes the problem.”

“Our two-party system is a fraud. It's a Tammany Hall writ large.”

“The powerful are always rigging the system in their own favor. It's the nature of power.”

“In the last analysis, the environmental crisis is a crisis of society.”