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"The future of operational research is past," The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol 30 (1979) - Ackoff, Russell | WIST Quotations
When a mess, which is a system of problems, is taken apart, it loses its essential properties and so does each of its parts. The behavior of a mess depends more on how the treatment of its parts interact than how they act independently of each other. A partial solution…