The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.
Gregory BatesonIn the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Gregory BatesonThose who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
Gregory BatesonPeople are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
Gregory Bateson