I believe, however, that humans are the only animals that we know who invents tools for working together - and they have done that as long as we have… - Gerald Weinberg

As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.

A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.

The generalist, is like the fox, who knows many things. Just as anthropologists learn to live in many cultures, without rifles, so do certain scientists manage to adapt comfortably to the paradigms of several disciplines. How do they do it? When questioned, these generalists always express an inner faith in the unity of science. They, too, carry a single paradigm, but it is one taken from a much higher vantage point, one from which the paradigms of the different disciplines are seen to be very much alike, though often obscured by special language."