Quotes from Stafford Beer

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

The the purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

This exquisite photograph of water in movement...has a very subtle message for us. It is that nature's computers are that which they compute. If one were to take intricate details of wind and tide and so on, and use them...as 'input' to some computer simulating water—what computer would one use, and how express the 'output'? Water itself: that answers both those questions.

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.