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.

Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant.

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

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.

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

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.