(271 quotes found)
“A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.”
W. Edwards Deming
“The least flexible component of any system is the user.”
Lowell Jay Arthur
“We recognize that many diseases we aim to treat have a strong genetic component. Additionally, we know some patients taking medicines show efficacy or experience side-effects, while others do not. Our understanding of all this has improved greatly but these areas remain as significant challenges in drug development.”
John LaMattina
“The One appears to be my Companion; the One is my Brother and Friend. The elements and the components are all made by the One; they are held in their order by the One.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Yeah, but I'm missing the, uh, the visual component.”
Catherine Zeta Jones
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail”
Clive James
“[T]he number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer. . .”
Jeremy Bernstein
“Hip hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat, ... There’s not much of a visual component. There’s no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.”
Louis Oliver
“I think I would stay with it, ... It's been a fairly good component in consumer products: cell phones, PCs, all the way across the board. They're very diversified, and if consumer products sell well during the holidays, National will see the results.”
Andrew Barrett
“This case had a powerful emotional component and I was concerned that we would not be able to overcome that.”
Anthony Ricco