I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid - or at least unwise - but not necessarily racist.
It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.
Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.
