Mathieu Tozer's Dev Blog

"Chances are that you groaned when you first picked up this book,
seeing how heavy and thick
it was. The prospect of reading such a long, technical book is enough
to make anyone gloomy;
fortunately, just as long journeys take place one day at a time, and
ultimately one step at a time,
so long books get read one chapter at a time, and ultimately one
sentence at a time."

-Ed Yourdon, Structured Analysis and Design, Chapter 1 introduction.

Also:

As John Gall says in Systemantics (Gall, 1977),

"No one, these days, can avoid contact with systems. Systems are every-
where: big systems, little systems, systems mechanical and
electronic, and
those special systems that consist of organized associations of
people. In
self-defense, we must learn to live with systems, to control them
lest they
control us. As Humpty Dumpty said to Alice (though in another context):
“The question is: which is to be master — that’s all."