System Thinker Gifts

"Public opinion appears split between those who support the public school system and those who can afford private schools."

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

"That recruitment algorithm we’ve been using, I think we need to revisit it!"

When Engineers Crack.

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

"The central digital platform is temporarily renamed Project Schrödinger’s Cat. Until it is accessed on the 24th February it both is and is not a working system."

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

'He's working on the great American requirements document.'

"Our website design could be described as "organic"... in the sense that people often compare it to poop."

'So, how should we play this - capitalism or socialism?'

"Until you're top management, Warrick, I strongly suggest you stay within the lines."

"We want maintenance insurance."

Capitalism

"The new system is 100% accurate as long as the client is called Colin and lives in Swindon."

"It seems our new computer system is allowing us to implement idiotic ideas ten times faster than we've previously been able to!"

'That's the worst video game idea I ever saw!'

"I wish that life was as logical as Algebra."

'A surgeon operated on the wrong side of the operating room, and is being charged with medical feng shui malpractice.'

"We can't have Single Payer - what will people do without claim denials and endless hoops to jump through?"

Freedom Puppet

"Of course, Perkins likes to think he can make it to the top outside the corporate structure."

"Actually, I'm tired of the man trying to shape our minds so they fit into some pre-arranged societal widget."

Actualities - Dream of the inventor of the needle-gun on All Souls' Day

'I'm going to have to go with the leeches on this one....'

'The government is offering us financial incentives to offer out staff financial incentives to offer our customers financial incentives to come up withsome good ideas for financial incentives.'

"Bloody privatisation, have you got 50p?"

How corporate data wizards decide it's time to re-vamp everything...

'A hacker broke into our computer and, in an act of random kindness, organized all of our student files.'

"Everyone who's unhappy with their health system is here."

"Thank you for computerising the company - you are now obsolete, Goodbye."

"Very rich people exploit system shock!"

'We have a dysfunctional congress, dysfunctional economy, dysfunctional health care system... that's why I'm quitting government so I can join the insurance lobby and run things!'

'Jimmy, the most important thing to know as a new doctor is never cure your patient the first time. That way they have to come back and pay you again.'