"Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can't measure. Think about that for a minute. It means that we make quantity more important than quality."
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Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008, pages 175-176 (ISBN 9781603580557).
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