“They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism.”

“Dichotomies are most mischevious when they arbitrarily separate parts of a highly interrelated and complex system.”

“...education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth of the matter is that regardless of institutional education level, workers around the world can be adequately trained on the job for high productivity.”

“The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.”

“The world of global drug production, shipping distribution, sales, and consumption is too complex, however, to be understood in any single us-and-them story.”

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”