"You've seen how information holds system together and how delayed, biased, scattered, or missing information can make feedback loops malfunction. Decision-makers can respond to information they don't have, can't respond accurately to information that is inaccurate, and can't respond in a timely way to information that is late. I would guess that most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information. [...] Information is power."
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Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, page 173 (ISBN 9781603580557).
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