#stems

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#addressed #already #being #computer #congress

This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that first or second graders are expected to know. Like the common school movement, uniform indicators of quality, centralized regulation, more highly credientialed teachers are to ensure that instruction--rather than creating engaging activities for children to explore--will be delivered in more uniform ways. And the state signals to parents that this is now the appropriate way to raise one's three- or four-year-old. Modern child rearing is equated with systems building in the eyes of universal pre-kindergarten advocates--and parents hear this discourse through upbeat articles in daily newspapers, public service annoucement, and from school authorities. ↗

— Bruce Fuller

#children #kindergarten #preschool #school-systems #standardized-tests

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. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#economic #former #insist #our #political

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#bringing #fear #limit #more #most

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#best #concentrate #fully #i #i can

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. ↗

— Bill Joy

#because #being #copy #everyone #expensive

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complex #complex system #simple #system #systems

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#children #commonplace #contain #each #higher

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#adapt #change #come #develops #i

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. ↗

— Larry Wall

#best #free #i #i think #likely