20th-century Systems Engineer Quotes

The world about us can be looked at in a variety of ways. One way is to see the world as made up from many interacting systems: weather, societal, economic, ecological, floral, faunal, tectonic plate, oceanic, and so on. This is very much a connected view of the world: nothing is isolated and totally independent; everything is part of something bigger, and everything comprises many interacting parts — subsystems.

Like concepts such as national energy policy or war on drugs, competitiveness covers a lot of territory

Allen B. Rosenstein

Sometimes it is more difficult to formulate the criterion for a problem than to state the question itself.

Robert E. Machol

Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.