[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.

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

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

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

No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

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.