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The Earth was formed whole and continuous in the Universe, without lines.

Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.

Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows.

Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

A system consists of elements, interconnections, and a purpose. Changing elements usually has the least effect on the system.

If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path
[in Mediated Modeling page 43]

The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made.