#systems

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#chaos #control #engendered #holds #more

Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#attack #back #coming #computer #example

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#believe #better #depends #i #i believe

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

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#animal #boring #bunch #concrete #down

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#complex #cynical #exploitation #extreme #global

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#ever #made #none #our #run

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#accountable #anywhere #creating #else #everyone

In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage. ↗

— William Duane

#first #in my opinion #last #opinion #prevailing

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#building #coding #debugging #hard #hard work