#stems

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#broad #campaign #capturing #ending #holding

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

It may be possible to discover which religion is the most profound, but if we ask which religious system is best, it is difficult to respond. The value of a religion is relative to each individual. A religion's philosophical view may be the most profound and comprehensive, but still it can be inappropriate for a particular individual. Buddha did not always teach he most profound perspective. Rather than trying to force the deepest view on everyone, he taught according to individual interest and dispositions. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV Becoming Enlightened

#compare #perspective #religion #systems #religion

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#feasible #infinite #require #simple #systems

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#attack #complex #controlling #damage #desired

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#file #i #least #memory #systems

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

#days #early #equipment #gradually #had

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#cultures #incapacity #insistence #measuring #other