#system

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cheap #corn #designed #efficient #efficient way

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. ↗

— Karl Popper

#described #may #science #systematic

Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world. ↗

— Lisa See

#been #china #county #found #invented

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have. ↗

— Susan Powter

#authority #biggest #diminish #end #end result

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change ↗

— Frank Herbert

#systems #change

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality. ↗

— Theo de Raadt

#because #designed #earlier #felt #i

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run. ↗

— Theo de Raadt

#been #cheap #hacks #happens #just

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#had #i #involved #kid #law

I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#amplifier #because #entire #had #i

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#democracy #education #freedom #fulfilled #gifts