"The largest building in the world, the space vehicle preparation shed at Cape Kennedy, generates its own weather, including clouds and rain. This and other system principles are explained in a delightful and amusing book by John Gall (1986) entitled Systematics: The underground text of systems lore; how systems really work and how they fail, and is recommended for anyone who designs systems. One can choose to ignore the principles by which systems operate and continue to be puzzled as to why they do not seem to act as we intend, or recognize the principles and thus improve the ability to design systems that work."
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Wayne P. Stevens (1991) Software design: concepts and methods. p. 187
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John Gall
John Gall (September 18, 1925 - December 15, 2014) was an American pediatrician, known for his 1975 book General systemantics.
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