“A subject may be said to be in such a state if he (it) wants something and has unequally efficient alternative ways of trying to get it.”

— Russell L. Ackoff

Source: 1970s, On purposeful systems., 1972, p. 39, as cited in: Jacob Hendrik Galjaard (2009) De droom van mijnheer Ariyoshi. p. 89:

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