System Limitations Quotes

Systems don't win, players do.

With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.

Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful cannot lead to all truths.

One can think of any given axiom system as being like a computer with a certain limited amount of memory or processing power. One could switch to a computer with even more storage, but no matter how large an amount of storage space the computer has, there will still exist some tasks that are beyond its ability.

The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

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

Antivirus systems need to strike a balance between detecting all possible attacks without causing any false alarms. And while we try to improve on this all the time, there will never be a solution that is 100 percent perfect.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

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

The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

I'm trying to add and show more every single year, you know, as much as our system allows me.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.