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Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability–whether they are easily measured or not.

— Kenneth Boulding to Kenneth Boulding in: Ramage Magnus and Karen Shipp (2009)

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Communication can only take place among equals.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

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