Subsystems Quotes

#1. Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

Paul Bloom

#2. A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Jef Raskin

#3. No matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

Vaclav Smil

#4. Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

Clayton Christensen

#5. Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

Adhir Kalyan

#6. Marrying. Oh, God. Buoyed temporarily by port wine and cream lace, I had momentarily managed to ignore the significance of the occasion.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Nonsense," Ophelia said stoutly. "They're happy sheep. You can tell."
"How?" Sophia demanded.
Ophelia regarded the ewes for a moment, then suddenly broke into a huge grin. "Maybe you can tell they
're happy sheep because they don't feel baaaaad.

Karen Hawkins

#8. People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

#9. The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ...

Aristotle.

#10. I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.

Leonard Nimoy

#11. The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#12. The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

Eugene J. Martin

#13. to be underestimated by an enemy is the greatest advantage a man can have.

Megan Whalen Turner

#14. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C.S. Lewis

#15. Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

Juhani Pallasmaa

#16. I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.

Peter Blegvad

#17. Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.

Christopher Isherwood

#18. When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

Sarah Sutton