System Theory

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or theory:

    Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident—the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
    Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)

    Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)