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

The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.

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?

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

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

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time... The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.