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Antivirus systems only effectively work on a virus after given virus has passed its prime.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, work

All librarians will be happy to help when you don't need it, but will vanish when you have a question about the Dewey Decimal system.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, question, help, happiness, need, contentment

Dewey was drunk when he made the decimal system.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, mathematics

The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, survival, essential, enemies

No system is so perfect it can't be made to work.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about perfection, work

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about education, children, country, world

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion, children, mind

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Quote by Thomas Paine about science, man

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, justice

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about woman, celebrity, stars, real estate, man, people

In the eighties I watched hard-line Marxists converting to political Islam after the collapse of their belief system.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about politics, faith

Traditionally, we had a very rigid system of political representation. The opportunity to enter the EU shook everything up.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about politics, chance

And yet the people of my generation who loved jazz were starved of it in terms of actually seeing our heroes until the exchange system started in 1956.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about people

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about language

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about state

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about science, consequences, knowledge, change

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about need

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure...

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution, knowledge

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact hence changing general statements about it and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about knowledge, body

Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about question