Quotes with systems

  • And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
  • 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
  • Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
  • Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Anne Perry Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Arthur Rock And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Bono Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Gene Brown Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • George Eliot Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ann Veneman I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Karl Albrecht If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Clinton In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Jack Kinder In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.
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  • Bill Shuster It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal 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
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Don DeLillo Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
    Cosmopolis (2011) 47
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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