#system

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#because #catch #know #mistake #most

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #like #linux #only #see

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#benefits #current #guaranteed #pay-as-you-go #person

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#favor #institute #keep #maintenance #matter

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#allowing #any #best #corporation #doing

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

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#administration #believe #benefits #crisis #defined

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#empires #existence #heart #indeed #jewish

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#demand #fundamental #fundamental change #government #horrors