Arnold Tustin (1899–1994) British engineer
Source: The Mechanism of Economic Systems (1953), p. ix
"Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives," 1975
Arnold Tustin (1899–1994) British engineer
Source: The Mechanism of Economic Systems (1953), p. ix
Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher
Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p. 14.
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
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
“A system is a plan or scheme of doctrines intended to develop a particular view.”
Albert Mackey (1807–1881) U.S. writer on freemasonry
(1919), p. 755.
An encyclopedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences, (1912)
Alexis Karpouzos (1967)
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Russell L. Ackoff and Fred Emery (1972) On purposeful systems, cited in: Lloyd Dobyns, Clare Crawford-Mason (1994) Thinking about quality: progress, wisdom, and the Deming philosophy. p. 40.
1970s
Fred Emery (1925–1997) Australian psychologist
Russell L. Ackoff and Fred Emery (1972) On purposeful systems, cited in: Lloyd Dobyns, Clare Crawford-Mason (1994) Thinking about quality: progress, wisdom, and the Deming philosophy. p. 40.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Context: Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Sidney G. Winter book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982), p. 365