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Systems engineering is most effectively conceived of as a process that starts with the detection of a problem and continues through problem definition, planning and designing of a system, manufacturing or other implementing section, its use, and finally on to its obsolescence. Further, Systems engineering is not a matter of tools alone; It is a careful coordination of process, tools and people.

— Arthur D. Hall A.D. Hall (1965)

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For any given set of objects it is impossible to say that no interrelationships exist.

Every part of the system is so related to every other part that a change in a particular part causes a changes in all other parts and in the total system

Harold Chestnut (1967)

For a given system, the environment is the set of all objects outside the system: (1) a change in whose attributes affect the system and (2) whose attributes are changed by the behavior of the system.

For any given system, the environment is the set of all objects whose behaviour is influenced by the behaviour of the primary system, and those objects whose behaviour influences the behavior of the primary system.

p. 20 cited in: Baleshwar Thaku eds (2003)

History becomes one model needed to give a rounded view of our subject within the philosophy of hierarchical holographic modeling, defined as using a family of models at several levels to seek understanding of diverse aspects of a subject and thus comprehend the whole.

Metasystems Methodology (1989)

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