Quote by Nancy G. Leveson

“We need to understand what variables most directly control our primary variable by understanding the science behind how the system works.”

— Nat Greene

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you…

— Anonymous

According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and…

— Anthony Stafford Beer

“Control is the foundation of efficiency.”

— Richard W. Nielsen

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

— Malcolm Knowles

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

— Tom Stoppard

“But no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection.”

— Haruki Murakami

“...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the information and…

— W. G. Sebald

“We suffer sometimes from the hubris of believing that control is a matter of applying sufficient force, or a sufficiently detailed set of instructions.”

— Mark Burgess

“One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.”

— Maupertuis

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

— William S. Burroughs

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

— William Ross Ashby