System Dynamics
Quotes & Thinkers in System Dynamics
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"In physical, exponentially growing systems, there must be at least one reinforcing loop driving growth and at least one balancing feedback loop constraining growth, because no system can grow forever in a finite environment."
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🇺🇸Jay Wright Forrester
Mathematics
1918–2016
"Pestel was a very forceful person and quickly saw the power of system dynamics."
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🇺🇸Donella Meadows
Literature
1941–2001
"The least obvious part of a system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior."
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Notable Quotes
"When there are long delays in feedback loops, some sort of foresight is essential."
— Donella Meadows, b. 1941View →
"The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole."
— Donella Meadows, b. 1941View →
"Dynamic systems studies usually are not designed to predict what will happen. Rather, they're designed to explore what would happen, if a number of driving factors unfold in a range of different ways."
— Donella Meadows, b. 1941View →
"In fact, one of the most frustrating aspects of systems is that the purposes of subunits may add up to an overall behavior that no one wants."
— Donella Meadows, b. 1941View →
"A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate."
— Donella Meadows, b. 1941View →