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

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

Communication can only take place among equals.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields... leading towards a "system of systems." [...] I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse...(vi) [...] the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness...