System Quotes

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It’s far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y’all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.

because, you know, democracy has been “the worst of all political systems except for all the rest.”

It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.