best quotations about
Systems |
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Quotations
 | A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 4 likes |
 | The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 3 likes |
 | Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 1 likes |
 | Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 1 likes |
 | Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. — Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, American President [1913-1921] 1 likes |
 | In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendly and the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp, 1908-1999, British writer 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The totality is not a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts. Πάντων γαρ όσα πλείω μέρη έχει και μη έστιν οίον σωρός το παν. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
