Jay Wright Forrester Quotes

• The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Country, Real, World Government

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• Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Taken, World, Today

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• I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Baby, Teaching, Believe

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• The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Principles, Behavior, Understood

  Jay Wright Forrester (1968). “Principles of Systems: Text and Workbook”

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