105 quotes
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure (1999)
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity (1969)
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
Cosmography (1992)
Critical threshold-crossing of the inevitable revolution is already underway.
Grunch of Giants (1983)
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
The Designers and the Politicians (1962)
It also involves constant reference of all the reciprocating sub-sets to the comprehensive totality of non-simultaneous universe, from which naught may be lost.
The Designers and the Politicians (1962)
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy.
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
Realistic thinking accrues only after mistake making, which is the cosmic wisdom's most cogent way of teaching each of us how to carry on.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
The Designers and the Politicians (1962)
The quantity of energy that ceased to "fall in" is the system's entropy.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
World Design Science Decade 1965-1975 Phase I (1965)
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival (1977)