Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

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

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power

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 process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

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.