General Systems Theory

Famous quotes containing the words general, systems and/or theory:

    “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
    —Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    “Our little systems have their day;
    They have their day and cease to be:
    They are but broken lights of thee,
    And thou, O Lord, art more than they.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Won’t this whole instinct matter bear revision?
    Won’t almost any theory bear revision?
    To err is human, not to, animal.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)