Top 1200 Information Systems Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

Available on all video game systems: Playstation 475, Ybox, and Wii 3 4000.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

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

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a critical mass amount of information, and I feel like acting - reacting. My manifesto has always been the same: I cannot act in the world before understanding the world. I will not move a finger. I will not come up with any ideas - nothing - until I actually understand what is happening.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

We live on a human-dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth.

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.

Regardless of what we consume, the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth's living systems.

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services.

Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.

Basically I have a fleet of cleanup systems floating around, up to 50 that we plan on deploying.

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

We have a lot of systems here on board the space station, and we can't call a repair man when one of them breaks.

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

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

The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.