Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.

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

When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.

we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.