A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability - whether they are easily measured or not.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.