Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.