We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

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.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.