Quotes of: Complex-system Keyword

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The s...

A People's History of the United States

My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems...

Kevin Mitnick

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

The shortest distance between two people is a story.

Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Kenneth L. Pike

'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.

Louis Leterrier

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative...

Walter Lippmann

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Hari Kunzru

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Alex Tabarrok

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Walter Cronkite

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

Walter Lang

We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the sy...

Theodore Kaczynski

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

John Taylor Gatto

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Edward Snowden