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Introduction to Systems I

We build systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes-- build the whole thing, push it off a cliff, let it crash, and start over again.

R.M. Graham

If builders built buildings the same way that programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker would destroy civilisation.

Gerald Weinberg





Jagdish Gangolly
Fri Sep 8 20:22:25 EDT 2000