"We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures."

-- John L. Casti

#Real Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. "Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.”
“Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.”

Source : Thomas Troward (2013). “The Wisdom of Thomas Troward”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“I just don't like to ask for things.”
“With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.”
“It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by institutional economists, lawyers, and administrators interested in formulating and implementing public policy. It has been the tendency of these groups to work almost as though the other did not exist.”

Source : Martin Shubik, Richard Levitan (1980). “Market structure and behavior”, Harvard Univ Pr
“I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.”
“If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.”

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