I was taken in by the elegance and simplicity of her definition of a system:
(From page 2)
And, later from page 12, some similar words:
She opens the book by quoting Poul Anderson:
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated
I love it! [And it's not as dry as the Defense Acquisition University's definition of a system as given in para 1.2 of their manual.]
