“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”— Mary Douglas
“I'd do it again. I was exploring a system. I was a neophyte. I was learning a system. The phone company is a system. A computer is a system, do you understand? If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system.”— John Thomas Draper
“The whole system is based on confidence. The moment the confidence is gone, the whole system collapses.”— Marc Faber
“Wherever there is a system, there is a risk of it being observed, and this observation may reduce the entropy of the system.”— Alan Perlis
“Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.”— Vannevar Bush
“The idea that there are 'systems' which are represented by state vectors, and 'apparatus' which are not, is surely something that we must grow out of.”— John Stewart Bell
“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”— Michael Crichton
“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government... because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes.”— Robert M. Pirsig