"It's not necessarily against a system that it collapses, because most systems do collapse in the end. That’s a part o…"

"Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction."

"'The harder I work, the luckier I get'. It was Thomas Jefferson who started the stream of variations on that theme. H…"

"Holism [is] the art — in contrast with reductionism — of seeing a complex system as a whole. Holism knows the limits …"

"While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places an…"

"Without a sense of history, our expectations are the product of how we live now."

"Crime is valuable feedback about what childhood in a society means, about its education, economics and culture—about …"

"As people surrender the power to build the institutions they want, which would enable lives that make sense to them, …"

"At present, culture is decorative rather than structural; although it may lift the spirits ... The Lean Economy, in c…"

"Localisation stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour …"