Quote by Rich Jolly

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

— Nat Greene

“Feedback and feedforward loops cause components within a system to reinforce or counteract each other.”

— Gene Kim

“Senge (1990) introduced the idea of system archetypes as being connections of feedback loops and delays”

— Rich Jolly

“It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces.”

— Steven Redhead

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

— James F. Cooper

“...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

The enemy of stability can be complacency

— Ross Brawn

“Cognitive strain, whatever its source, mobilizes System 2, which is more likely to reject the intuitive answer suggested by System 1. The”

— Daniel Kahneman

Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want…

— Raymond E. Feist

System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen…

— John L. Casti

“being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimizing for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness to a…

— Stanley McChrystal

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings