System Flaws Quotes

The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

Why respect the rules of the system … if the system consistently generates crises?

Our founding fathers created a system of government of men, not of angels.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

The system is not perfect. Reversals prove that the system works.

There were big problems with every system, and there always have been.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

Complex systems work until the day that they don’t work.

Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

We must judge the form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect system.

Our democratic system was put in place before we had democratic ideals. The system now provides a playground for special interests, and its democratic structure makes reforms difficult.

There's always some potential vulnerabilities in any system.

Whoever is in charge thinks the system is just great.

You don't know what the real problems of a health care system are until you get sick.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.