Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jay Wright Forrester

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Jay Wright Forrester.
Last updated on November 29, 2024.
Jay Wright Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer memory during the most explosive years of digital computer development. It was part of a family of related technologies which bridged the gap between vacuum tubes and semiconductors by exploiting the magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification.

The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts, and relationships between them, and uses those to represent the real system.
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century. — © Jay Wright Forrester
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.
The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.
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