Bill Miller

“He watched the results, using them to design new experiments. He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

“The more output that is produced, the more can be invested to make new capital. This is a reinforcing loop, like the birth loop for a population. The investment fraction is equivalent to the fertility. The greater the fraction of its output a society invests, the faster its capital stock will grow.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“Dynamic systems studies usually are not designed to predict what will happen. Rather, they’re designed to explore what would happen, if a number of driving factors unfold in a range of different ways.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“We’ve gone right back to barbarism. If it’s new, run away from it; if you can’t eat it, throw it away!”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed