System Comparison Quotes

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Democracy--with all of its inefficiency--is still the best system we have so far for enhancing the prospects of our mutual survival

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine.

Between a conservative republic and a constitutional monarchy there is merely a difference in form.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock. A republic is a raft that will never sink.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.

The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.