Systems Theorists Gifts

How Trickle Down Economics Work

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

Suzie would later win a Nobel Prize for her Law of Special Social Relativity.

When Engineers Crack.

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

Bureaucrats held up by the workers.

Davos.

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

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

"I'm telling you! They don't know anything! No one is in charge!"

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

"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."

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

"Do you ever wish you lived in a different era, Randy?" "Well… every waking moment I wish I were living before the beginning of existence itself. So I could witness the Big Bang." "It's safer to keep me where I am. Injecting my advanced virility into more primitive eras could have disastrous effects on the timeline." "That way I could know for sure whether our universe is all just one big simulation running on some geek's computer." "I mean, everything being made up of atoms and math is

"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!"

'The bad news is you have a disease that only a highly-paid specialist can pronounce.'

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

Freedom Puppet

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

Lots of 'systems chappies'.

'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.'

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

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

'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!'

The Thought Really Doesn't Count

"At least my lawyer got two years more than me."

'You can visit your mum in Ward C from 2 am until 3, Ward D from 3 until 5 am then it'll be Ward C until 6 and the corridor after that...'

"The government believes that the benefit system is out of hand!"

How self-regulation is meant to work and how it does work.

I'm not challenging your authority. I'm rejecting it completely."

"So, as you can see, health care is so complicated you may never get well."

Here's to Militant Apathy

'I think I can beat the system by never getting a job in the first place and retiring by the age of eight.'