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.

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

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

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

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

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."