121 Quotes About Systems

We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.

ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.

To study poverty without inequality leads to tendencies to misrecognize structural issues for individual failings. On the other hand, to study inequality without poverty, particularly through focus only on trends and numbers, is to allow for research devoid of humanity insofar as we merely cite phenomenon without naming the injustices as enacted on real persons.

COVID-19 is dividing the population into those with robust immune systems and those that have immune dysfunction.

I do not respond well to fraudulent systems of employee protection.

The failure of the Disability and Workers Compensation systems can be associated with a massive number of suicides.

Mike Kelleher from Obama’s Senate office was the person who stepped up to tackle the mess…He built the staff, drew up a ten-page strategic plan for the mail-room, wrote algorithms for a mail coding system, set up a casework decision tree, assembled a library of policy-response letters, and developed quality-control manuals. Pg 88

The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior! An outside event may may unleash that behavior, but the same outside event applied to a different system is likely to produce a different result.