Jay Wright Forrester: Dynamics

Jay Wright Forrester was American operations researcher. Explore interesting quotes on dynamics.

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“Formulating a model of a system should start from the question “Where is the boundary, that encompasses the smallest number of components, within which the dynamic behavior under study is generated?””

Jay Wright Forrester

Source: Principles of Systems (1968), p. 4-2; as cited in Richardson (2011)

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

Jay Wright Forrester

Forrester (1989) The Beginning of System Dynamics http://leml.asu.edu/jingle/Web_Pages/EcoMod_Website/Readings/SD+STELLA/Forrester-Begin'g-SD_1989.pdf. Banquet Talk at the international meeting of the System Dynamics Society Stuttgart, Germany July 13, l989

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“In concept a feedback system is a closed system. Its dynamic behavior arises within its internal structure. Any action which is essential to the behavior of the mode being investigated must be included inside the system boundary.”

Jay Wright Forrester

Source: Principles of Systems (1968), p. 4-1 as cited in: Richardson, George P. " Reflections on the foundations of system dynamics http://obssr.od.nih.gov/issh/2012/files/Richardson%202011.pdf." System Dynamics Review 27.3 (2011): 219-243.

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