System Resilience Quotes

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

From my point of view, the American financial system - including banks and investment banks - is far safer because of capital and liquidity requirements. Despite all the turbulence so far this year, I don't think anyone's questioning our system. And that, obviously, is a good thing.

To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

I've expressed concern about the assaults on our institutions, both from external sources - meaning the Russians - and internal sources. And I think this will be a real test of the resilience of our system and its pillars.

The best approach here, if at all possible, is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset-price bubble bursts in the future.

Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.

Our system will prevail but it must be tested by talk and trade.

Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Can we prevent an almost complete collapse of the financial structure of modern capitalism? With no financial leadership left in the world and profound intellectual error as to causes and cures prevailing in the responsible seats of power, one begins to wonder and to doubt.... The financial and political authorities of the world have lacked the courage or the conviction at each stage of the decline to apply the available remedies in sufficiently drastic doses; and by now they have allowed the collapse to reach a point where the whole system may have lost its resiliency and its capacity for a rebound.

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That's something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Russia should be an effective and competitive state with a sustainable economy, developed social and political system flexible to changes domestically and globally.

The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

We had a lot of gridlock on a lot of issues. But, the American system is pretty resilient.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.