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Weinberg, G.M., Weinberg, D., "On the Design of stable systems", New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1979. Google

Quotations
1 ;;Quote: cultural and social continuity must be recreated anew in each generation; ignored by modern social science
4 ;;Quote: the human good requires freedom from physical suffering and freedom from boredom and fear of fellow human beings
15 ;;Quote: inanimate aggregates are common, e.g., books and ideas; they survive the destruction of copies or adherents
68 ;;Quote: for aggregate success, members must be the same to the system (as observed) and different to the environment (for survival)
186 ;;Quote: in an open, changing system such as our bodies, constancy is evidence for homeostatic agencies
186 ;;Quote: a state remains steady because any change is automatically met by counteracting factors
186 ;;Quote: a homeostatic, regulating system may comprise a number of cooperating factors acting together or successively
187 ;;Quote: if a factor shifts a homeostatic state in one direction, look for controlling or opposing factors
188 ;;Quote: Maxwell developed governors; Cannon discussed homeostasis; Wiener is popularly, the father of cybernetics
238 ;;Quote: our image of the world largely governs our behavior; i.e., the world of reasonably stable relations--"if I do this, then that will happen"
250 ;;Quote: the regulator paradox--the task is to eliminate variation, but variation is the source of needed information; e.g., testing icy roads
255 ;;Quote: if the entropy of a source is not more than a channel's capacity then have arbitrarily reliable transmission
273 ;;Quote: if a whole has living parts, it cannot be like lifeless wholes


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