Quotes About Development

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

I want to work with the Philippine people and make life better there; there are systems I can work with.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

For the past 30 years, I have been committed to the development and application of radioisotopic methodology to analyze the fine structure of biologic systems.

In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

We need to build EQ in our AI systems because, otherwise, they're not going to be as effective as they were designed to be.

We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used.

I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.

It's an old idea. It's arguably the first way that people learn, that, hey, if you need to learn something, if you're having trouble with it, keep working on it until you master it and then you go to a more advanced concept. But in the education systems that all of us grew up in, we all learned at a fixed pace.