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"A system is more than the sum of its parts. It may exhibit adaptive, dynamic, goal-seeking, self-preserving, and sometimes evolutionary behavior."

— Donella H. Meadows

A System Is More Than The Sum Of Its Parts It May Exhibit Adaptive Dynamic Go

A system is more than the sum of its parts. It may exhibit adaptive, dynamic, goal-seeking, self-preserving, and sometimes evolutionary behavior.

— Donella H. Meadows
From Thinking in Systems
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Thinking in Systems, Chapter 1

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