Ems Quotes - Page 3

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.

If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with ’em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

You have to wipe yourself down, to stay clean. If ya' girl clean, and ya' thoughts clean, wipe 'em down. Wipe 'em down man.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called Planet Earth. As we learn how we fit into the greater scheme of things, and begin to understand how the system works, we can plan ahead, we can use the resources responsibly, to show some respect for this inheritance that goes back 4.6 billion years.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.

I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.

I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood