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A perennial problem of any organization which is involved in systems work of a changing nature is the need for the organization itself to change as it adapts to new opportunities, new objectives, new equipment, and new people.

— Harold Chestnut Systems Engineering Methods (1967)

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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.

Systems Engineering Tools (1965)

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.

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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

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