Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

The objective of education is learning, not teaching

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

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.