“The innovator, or designer, or planner acts politically in all cases where he is producing essential innovation — even though he may not know it — though he should!”

— Horst Rittel

“The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.”

— Krishnamurti

“The capital has its order, the village its customs.”

— Javanese proverb

“The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation in its value is false.”

— Norbert Wiener (1950)

“If you’re in the business of making something, be in the business of making something great.”

— Bob Iger

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

— John Muir

“The power of any orthodoxy resides in its ability to not seem like one”

— Michael Pollan

“When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.”

— Bruce Mau

“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be.’”

— Richard Feynman