Systems Theory

🇺🇸George Klir

Science

1932–2016

"No classification is complete and perfect for all purposes."

🇺🇸Russell L. Ackoff

Science

1919–2009

"A corporation that fails to see itself as an instrument of all its stakeholders will probably fail to use them, and be used by them, effectively enough to survive in the emerging environment."

🇬🇧Gregory Bateson

Science

1904–1980

"We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong"

W. Ross Ashby

Science

1903–1972

"Every isolated determinate dynamic system, obeying unchanging laws, will ultimately develop some sort of organisms that are adapted to their environments."

"Pestel was a very forceful person and quickly saw the power of system dynamics."