Quotes of: Operating-system Keyword

(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and order involved, and doesn’t seem very chaotic at all. What would you say to such a person?) A: I differentiate sternly between Chaos and Entr...

Peter J. Carroll

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and young people are limited by the chair system. Eve...

Kenichi Fukui

Education has turned into a cookie mill. everyone recieves the same degree, the same council, the same formula of inspiration and ideas to make them a MODEL of an educated being. But that is the problem. No 2 people are alike so why subscribe to a sy...

Levon Peter Poe

The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that ...

Michael J. Behe

Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the s...

John Steinbeck

[first Lines] Narrator: In the final decade of the 21st Century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD, they had reached the other planets of our solar system. Almost at once there followed the discovery of hyperdrive through w...

Forbidden Planet

The universe is something like a powerful radar system that is set up from all sides to record every action and every event that may take place anywhere, even of the least intensity or momentum. Meditation, when it is properly done, is not a silent a...

Life

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

The Broom of the System

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

George Packer

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Shannon Miller

The system you work in does not tell you who you get to be; you decide who you get to be.

Leading with Intention: Every Moment Is a Choice

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?

Strange Places

Demokratie gestattet keine Politik außerhalb des demokratischen Systems. In diesem Sinne ist Demokratie totalitär.

Tagebuch eines schlimmen Jahres

The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans.

Voice of Reason

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Jimmy Carter

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.

Mario Gabelli

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Tim Allen

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Leslie Caron

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Nate Silver

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Orrin Woodward