Jay Wright Forrester quotes

Jay Wright Forrester quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : Jay Wright Forrester (1968). “Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook”

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