#systems

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#between #conflict #exists #industrial #real

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#duty #jury #jury duty #people #political

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

#behind #blue-collar #change #computer #driving

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#behaving #behavior #beings #complexity #environment

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#construction #creates #economy #engineering #heavy

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. ↗

— Bill Gates

#asian #classes #concepts #few #lot

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#last #longer #precious #precious thing #systems

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#bird #early #early bird #makes #often