Quote by Donella H. Meadows

“The purpose of a system is what it does.”

— Stafford Beer

“1. Identify the System—Perhaps the most important aspect here is specifying the system boundary”

— Rich Jolly

“no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.”

— David Christian

“There are three constants in existence... change with almost everything,choice and principles.”

— Krystal Volney

“Ask yourself, “When do I need to see what, in what form, to get it off my mind?” You build a system for function,…

— David Allen

“With these three qualities, it cannot be made the subject of description; and hence we blend them together and obtain The One.”

— Lao Tzu

“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition. ”

— Martha Cooley

“That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?”

— Peter Washington

“not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system.”

— Aristotle

“There are, in the capacities of mankind, three varieties: one man will understand a thing by himself; another so far as it is explained…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“Every thing has multiple aspects, it depend on us what we look for and How we look at it.”

— Shruti Khandelwal

“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”

— Václav Havel