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“cognitive illusions are difficult to overcome. That is why education of the public is doomed to fail and paternalistic strategies to maneuver people into doing the “right” things are the only viable alternative.”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions

“Thou shalt not distort, delay, or withhold information.”
― Meadows. Donella, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”
― Meadows. Donella, Thinking in Systems: A Primer