Systems Theory Pillows

"My wife doesn't understand closed systems"

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

Suzie would later win a Nobel Prize for her Law of Special Social Relativity.

Sigmund Freud.

When Engineers Crack.

"Space is curved and time is relative? Yeah, OK...I'm calling you a cab right now, buddy."

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

'Quantum Mechanics is one of the three great pillars supporting our understanding of the natural world.

Bureaucrats held up by the workers.

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

Lecture on Chaos Theory delayed because the speaker dropped his notes.

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

'He's working on the great American requirements document.'

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

"The central digital platform is temporarily renamed Project Schrödinger’s Cat. Until it is accessed on the 24th February it both is and is not a working system."

How Trickle Down Economics Work

'So, how should we play this - capitalism or socialism?'

Capitalism

"The new system is 100% accurate as long as the client is called Colin and lives in Swindon."

"It seems our new computer system is allowing us to implement idiotic ideas ten times faster than we've previously been able to!"

'The bad news is you have a disease that only a highly-paid specialist can pronounce.'

'The beauty of this is that it is only of theoretical importance, and there is no way it can be of any practical use whatsoever.'

Freedom Puppet

"Of course, Perkins likes to think he can make it to the top outside the corporate structure."

"We can't have Single Payer - what will people do without claim denials and endless hoops to jump through?"

Bureaucrat

The Development of the Theory of Relativity

"Actually, I'm tired of the man trying to shape our minds so they fit into some pre-arranged societal widget."

Lots of 'systems chappies'.

'The government is offering us financial incentives to offer out staff financial incentives to offer our customers financial incentives to come up withsome good ideas for financial incentives.'

Michel Foucault

'I'm going to have to go with the leeches on this one....'

"Oog has a weird theory - He thinks sex and violence should be separate."

"Bloody privatisation, have you got 50p?"

Richard Taruskin