Building Systems Quotes

#1. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Fred Wilson

#2. This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

John Henry Holland

#3. We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

Daniel Suarez

#4. I seek distractions in order to avoid the struggle of creating. Creating is hard. Distracting myself is really, really easy.

Ed Cyzewski

#5. Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

#6. When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.

Neil Cole

#7. While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

Meles Zenawi

#8. Hey, boss. Where are you?" she asked.
"I just picked up something to eat. What about professional belly dancers?"
"Um, I don't know, maybe with horseradish.

Darynda Jones

#9. You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

K. Eric Drexler

#10. Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#11. The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Simon Baron-Cohen

#12. Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

Anne Frank

#13. To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

Colin Greenwood

#14. Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

Tammy Bruce

#15. We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems,structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. I was not born to be forced.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge

#19. Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy.

Bryant McGill

#20. By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

Brad Pitt

#21. I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

Tony Fadell

#22. The people working in my field also are quite skeptical of our ability to do this. It ultimately boils down to the problem of building complex systems that are reliable and that work, and that problem has long predated the problem of access to encryption keys.

Matt Blaze

#23. The soldiers stomp stomp stomp through the rain, crushing leaves and fallen snow under their feet. Their hands are wrapped in gloves wrapped around guns that could put a bullet through a million possibilities.

Tahereh Mafi

#24. Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Love for the humanity is the basis for morality.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

Nancy Pearcey

#27. I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

Ken Yeang

#28. What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress ... There's a lot of tribalism in the collections,

Alexander McQueen

#29. The biggest cause of failure in software-intensive systems is not technical failure; it's building the wrong thing.

Mary Poppendieck