Appreciated Quote by James F. Cooper

Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

— William Eckhardt

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

“System 1 has a What You See Is All There Is (WYSIATI) bias, which only considers factors that are readily apparent at the time.”

— Rich Jolly

“The term we use for the unanticipated result from these interactions is emergence. While not all interactions create emergent effects, when emergence does occur…

— Rich Jolly

“System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its…

— Ronald Fisher

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

— Gary Becker

“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.”

— John Himself