Quotes About Broken Systems

#1. The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we will ever have trying to rid the world of avarice

Ben Goldacre

#2. The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#3. By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

Harold C. Schonberg

#4. Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

Diogenes Laertius

#5. Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Jasper Carrott

#6. But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and politic to play along.

Ann Aguirre

#7. When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#8. Understand indigenous healing will also heal other nations and peoples. We've all been living on broken ugly systems built on genocide and slavery. Strengthening and empowering others, in whatever capacity, also helps the self.

Red Haircrow

#9. The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

Sengcan

#10. [T]he mind cannot always brood on the same cares, but needs fresh cares from time to tome, so as to revert with renewed vigour, when the time comes, to ancient cares.

Samuel Beckett

#11. I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

David Duchovny

#12. You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system.

G.A.P. Gutierrez

#13. The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Cheryl Heller

#14. I admit that sometimes I pick on Religions. I do believe there is a need for Religion for some but also a need for free thoughts within it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#15. What some say is a lost cause makes it worth even more to fight for.
date: 2007 ;)

Meagan Ray

#16. Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation
experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Paul Theroux

#17. If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Frank Herbert

#18. I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.

Bill Barich

#19. My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

Jamais Cascio

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

Bill Gates

#21. Blake and Livia were next to exit. He took the steps before she could and turned to offer her his hand, like a knight escorting his queen. Livia took Blake's hand and hugged his offered arm. Bea's photographer-nephew's flash blinded them as it captured their moment for all time.

Debra Anastasia