Anthony Stafford Beer

"It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it."

"An internal combustion engine is 'clearly' a system ; we subscribe to this opinion because we know that the engine was designed precisely to be a system. It is, however, possible to envisage that some…"

"A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well."

"Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content."

"There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time."

"General Systems Theory, as originally intended by Von Bertalanffy, is an ideal framework for the modeling of a business enterprise. Work, in its most civilized form should enrich, empower and emancipa…"

"The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances."

"If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control"