Systems Analysis Quotes

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.

In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.