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Has mankind evolved to a point that there exists, or that with creative additions and re-combinations of modest proportions, there can be shown to be available, a common systems methodology, in terms of which we can conceive of, plan, design, construct, and use systems (procedures, machines, teams of people) of any arbitrary type in the service of mankind, and with low rates of failure?

— Arthur D. Hall Metasystems Methodology (1989)

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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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