#stems

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. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained. ↗

— Phil Condit

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In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done. ↗

— Susan Collins

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Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

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In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage. ↗

— William Duane

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It is the fate of operating systems to become free. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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