#system

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#become #belief #blind #deaf #destined

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#evidently #generate #manner #necessary #solutions

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #each #functionality #goal #hierarchies

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#enabled #plain #private #reason #school system

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. ↗

— James Wolcott

#back #broken #celebrity #down #ecosystem

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#education #element #every #life #music

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#beginning #could #end #political #political system

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clean #come #deal #failure #final