We make our tools, and then they shape us.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.