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Jay Wright Forrester Quotes

American computer engineer and systems scientist (d. 2016), Birth: 14-7-1918
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The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.
Jay Wright Forrester

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Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.
Jay Wright Forrester

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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.
Jay Wright Forrester

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The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
Jay Wright Forrester