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Those of us concerned with developing new technology should consider ourselves to have a major undertaking to try to meet the expanding needs of the increasing number of people in the world with its finite resources and environments constraints.

— Harold Chestnut Chestnut (1981)

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Engineers should press forward with development to meet the diversified needs of people.

Chestnut (1981)

Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.

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A model may be pictorial, descriptive, qualitative, or generally approximate in nature, or it may be mathematical and quantitative in nature and reasonably precise.

Systems Engineering Tools (1965)

Characteristic of our times are the concepts of complexity, growth and change.

Systems Engineering Tools (1965)

In a society which is producing more people, more materials, more things, and more information than ever before, systems engineering is indispensable in meeting the challenge of complexity.

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