In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. If we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
You can’t change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.