Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."