#system

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#changing #i #i think #people #sense

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#baby #campaign #commuting #ed #election

The system should treat all user input as sacred. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#sacred #should #system #treat #user

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables! ↗

— Rihanna

#hate #i #into #junk #lot

C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#being #different #distributed #implemented #machines

A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#announced #began #happened #here #inferno