System Center

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or center:

“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

“It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
That all things have their center in their dying....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)