Top 1200 Systems Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms, and if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday algorithmic systems.

I see that our emotional AI technology can be a core component of online learning systems - health wearables, even.

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of this country.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

At first I was thinking of it as superheroes who happened to be teenagers. Then I realized, no, I'm writing about teenagers who happen to be superheroes. Thinking like that changed everything for me. I started approaching the stories through the characters' core emotions, rather than leading with the superpowers.

Unlike government entities, the private sector has the technical knowhow and experience to build and operate complex communications systems.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

If you ever have a question or a problem, if you approach Triple H, he might say the most-obvious thing, but it was the last thing you were thinking. As soon as he says it, you're thinking, 'Oh my, why didn't I think of that?' He's very smart, and we're very lucky to have him at our disposal in NXT.

Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

Players have already done a lot of groundwork trying to fight systems, I think we have to continue to do that, and as things happen to play out.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

In light of the attacks on mass transit systems in other countries, shouldn't we be beefing up?... Clearly more could be done.

Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

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

There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

It's quite likely that planets and solar systems like ours could be forming in other galaxies in great numbers.

I was thinking I would love to make something that is a successful film that everybody sees, but I wasn't thinking about the actual dollar amount. I just wanted to make a great film that people responded to. That's always a good ambition because you'll never totally hit it.

That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together...If you are still thinking. laughter will be just so-so...It will be a crippled laughter.

We are all a little weird. And we like to think that there is always someone weirder. I mean, I am sure some of you are looking at me and thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as you,” and I am thinking, “Well, at least I am not as weird as the people in the loony bin,” and the people in the loony bin are thinking, “Well, at least I am an orange”.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.

Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.

We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

Analytical clarity is the result of hard, syllogistic thinking, and that thinking has to be done alone. It's not just being physically alone but also alone with your thoughts - not looking at your phone, not hearing the buzz of an incoming text message or email.

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.