You're having to navigate a system that doesn't believe you, doesn't support you, and honestly has not much right now to offer you in terms of care.

It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?” “You try.

We need to know why things fails. If we want to improve our system, we need to put that information into that system into logs or something.

My system does not make sense at all, but by God it’s working.

A system represents someone's solution to a problem. The system doesn't solve the problem.

if you can’t prove something wrong, you can’t really prove it right either.

In order to judge that something is not working, wouldn’t we have to know what it’s effects really are? … And surely some of our social practices cannot be judged to be “working” except by invoking the goal of objective truth. For example, to know whether or not the criminal justice system is working well, wouldn’t we have to know something about the accuracy of its results?

Computer systems fail. We have to deal with it, we can't ignore it.

One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict. To me, conflict is a deeply spiritual place. It's the high-energy place where power meets power, where change and transformation can occur.

We were raised to believe that if we worked hard enough, we could win the system - of American capitalism and meritocracy - or at least live comfortably within it. But something happened in the late 2010s. We looked up from our work and realized, there’s no winning the system when the system itself is broken.

So try to be wrong.
Try to disprove your beliefs.
Never believe something on faith.
Prove it or disprove it.
While other people have one idea that they think might work, you will have thousands you can prove didn’t work, and one you couldn’t make fail.

We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. [...] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?