We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care.

All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.