"System engineering is the art and science of creating effective systems, using whole system, whole life principles."

"A system is an open set of complementary, interacting parts, with properties, capabilities and behaviours of the set …"

"The Holy Grail of systems engineering, a generic systems methodology has been the subject of the author’s ongoing res…"

"The real world is made from open, interacting systems, behaving chaotically."

"The world about us can be looked at in a variety of ways. One way is to see the world as made up from many interactin…"

"There seem to be two fundamental schisms in thinking: the hard/soft and the open/closed."

"Hard systems viewpoints are basically those held by designers and engineers who are trying to create systems to meet …"

"Soft systems viewpoints are those held by behavioural, management, social anthropology, social psychology and other s…"

"Emergence is the phenomenon of properties, capabilities and behaviours evident in the whole system that are not exclu…"

"Emergence is not really mysterious, although it may be complex. Emergence is brought about by the interactions betwee…"