Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]