Mike Jackson

1951– · systems scientist

Topics: software engineering, complexity, learning

• The classification of a system as complex or simple will depend upon the observer of the system and upon the purpose he has for considering the system.

  — Mike Jackson

• Different methodologies express different rationalities stemming from alternative theoretical positions which they reflect. These alternative positions must be respected, and methodologies and their appropriate theoretical underpinnings developed in partnership.

  — Mike Jackson

• In the modern systems approach, the concept "system" is used not to refer to things in the world but to a particular way of organising our thoughts about the world.

  — Mike Jackson