Preface
Our past and our plight are in the hands of dreamers and pragmatists. Dreamers rule the gateways to our future, concerned with a world that could be. Pragmatists build our next reality, driven by the success or failure of their previous work. If they solve the wrong problem, or if in the wrong way they solve the right problem, neither is a credit to mankind. Their solutions may be clever, apt, and ingenious—exemplars of accomplishment—but they may have failed a crucial test: failure to appreciate systems integration. The lessons are stern. Systems integration, misunderstood and ineptly executed, wreaks havoc with other systems. We live with those other systems.
This book concerns the principles and practices of integrating parts to ...
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