Science Quote by Nat Greene

The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.

— Paul Dilascia

Understanding brings control.

— Isaac Bonewits

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that…

— Marilyn Ferguson

“System variables are frequently not being uncontrollably manipulated by outside agencies like puppets on a string, but rather are responding to the hidden structures…

— Rich Jolly

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

— Philip Zimbardo

“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

“We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we…

— Mark Manson

“A basic principle of system theory is that no control system will perform better than its measuring channel.”

— Nancy G. Leveson

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

— Maupertuis

A system can not understand itself.

— W. Edwards Deming

“All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.”

— Bryant McGill