If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical … - Myron Tribus

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Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

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If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

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When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.

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The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

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