System Quotes

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget.

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

I have great faith in the jury system.

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.