to develop statements of system problems comprehensively, without disastrous oversimplification, precisely without confusing ambiguities, without confusing ends and means, without eliminating the ideal in favor of the merely practical, without confounding the abstract and the concrete, without reference to any particular solutions or methods, • to resolve top-level system problems into simpler problems that are solvable by technology: hardware, software, and bioware, • to integrate the solutions to the simpler problems into systems to solve the top-level problem.
