In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.