Ackoff Systems Quotes

#1. The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like - things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.

Roland Merullo

#2. Our moral frailty is a strange consolation.

Jen Pollock Michel

#3. If God rewards us on earth for good deeds - the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it - then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Stephen King

#4. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to

Austin Grossman

#5. Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes ... Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. - RUSSELL ACKOFF,

Donella H. Meadows

#6. She started three wars in the first wee.

Julie Garwood

#7. I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

Sam Brownback

#8. In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

Russell L. Ackoff

#9. Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

Marsha Sinetar

#11. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

Hal Roach

#12. I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

Drew Barrymore

#13. someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.

Declan McGonagle

#14. Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#15. It's always been you and me, James. That's why I can't kill you, and you can't kill me. Because even if it means the end of the world, I love you too much.

Cristin Terrill

#16. I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby...

Laurence Sterne