Systems Quotes

Culture is your operating system.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

Get into the relationship for the right reason because it's a great support system, because it's a great compliment to your life, because it's someone that actually fulfills you and makes you happy.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

There are moments that aren't great. And I think it's amazing for people to be able to have some insight, to be able to see the support system and what really happens.

Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

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.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

I have an amazing wife, Tia, and an amazing son, Cree, and I'm a family man first and they keep me grounded. They're my support system, so they make me stronger.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

I'm so lucky. I have such a great support system. All I have to do is run.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Finally, be kind to yourself and have a good support system.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.

You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.