In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism. . . we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today. . . our battle is with Satan himself.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.
I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.
The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.
The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.
When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.
In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Systems run the business and people run the systems.
There are two kinds of systems in the world. There are many-party systems and there are two-party systems. And our English cousins, both England, Canada, Australia, India, tend to have majority rule elections, rather than proportional elections and that tends to lead them to have two sort of competing parties. So in England, you know, it's been, you know, since the '20's, that anybody other than Labor or the Conservatives have formed a government and gotten a Prime Minister in the Cabinet, and so on.