Quotes About Donella

The least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows—one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report