Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Br...
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world a...
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
Control is violence; cooperation is friendship.
My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and users themselves.
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
