Can not Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

— Anne Wilson Schaef

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

— Paul Dilascia

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

— Maupertuis

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All…

— Paul Allen

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

— Novalis

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

— Robert M. Pirsig

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. Forthose who do not understand, no explanation is possible

— Hemantsmarty

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

— Charles A. Reich

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the…

— Ivan Turgenev