Systems Thinking Pillows

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

When Engineers Crack.

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

"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."

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

How Trickle Down Economics Work

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

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

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

"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!"

Bureaucrat

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

Freedom Puppet

"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'.

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

'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.'

How corporate data wizards decide it's time to re-vamp everything...

'The problem's too simple - call someone else'

'We have a dysfunctional congress, dysfunctional economy, dysfunctional health care system... that's why I'm quitting government so I can join the insurance lobby and run things!'

The Thought Really Doesn't Count

"Public opinion appears split between those who support the public school system and those who can afford private schools."

"The government believes that the benefit system is out of hand!"

Here's to Militant Apathy

"So, as you can see, health care is so complicated you may never get well."

How self-regulation is meant to work and how it does work.

'You can visit your mum in Ward C from 2 am until 3, Ward D from 3 until 5 am then it'll be Ward C until 6 and the corridor after that...'

Hold, Hold, Hold, What you imagine all the phones look like at technical support.

'The new automated system was a bit of a disaster!'

'I think I can beat the system by never getting a job in the first place and retiring by the age of eight.'

People Power

Observe, Prepare, Act

"You're free to go. Please exit through the gift shop."

It's Not the System