#systems

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #bolsheviks #bridges #build #built

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#culture #doing #economic #entire #globalization

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#call #everything #guards #had #i

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#fix #fragile #gets #money #one thing

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas. ↗

— Jon Brion

#developed #edge #generating #himself #ideas

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#biggest problem #challenge #cholera #haiti #health

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. ↗

— Sam Farr

#among #corps #cultures #diverse #global

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#addressed #already #being #computer #congress

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#arises #crisis #die #energy #environmental