“The various segments of the system of profound knowledge proposed here cannot be separated. They interact with each other. Thus, knowledge of psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.”

— W. Edwards Deming

The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (1993)

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American professor, author, and consultant 1900–1993

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