Source: Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers (2003), p. 3-4
“Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.”
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 118
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Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 98-99, footnote

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Source: Ben Lillie. " The sameness of organisms, cities, and corporations: Q&A with Geoffrey West http://blog.ted.com/qa-with-geoffrey-west/." at blog.ted.com. July 26, 2011.
Source: Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers (2003), p. 4

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)
Source: General System Theory (1968), 4. Advances in General Systems Theory, p. 90-91

Cited in: Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer, Vikas Krishna (2011) The Science of Service Systems. p. 274.
1970s, Towards a System of Systems Concepts, 1971
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 335
Source: Mankind at the Turning Point, (1974), p. 7 As cited in: (1998) The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism, p. 143
Source: Systemantics: the underground text of systems lore, 1986, p. 65 cited in "Quotes from Systemantics – Funny, But Scary Too" Posted on agileadvice.com March 3, 2006 by Mishkin Berteig. This quote was mentioned in General systemantics (1975, p. 71)