In Europe, tolerance is not respectable, because it means you're not certain of your ideas. (stuart umpleby on heinz von foerster at the international society for the systems sciences meeting, 2003)

if it works, it's out of date.(stafford beer, staffordian syntegration)

explorations in the geometry of thinking, r. buckminster fuller in collaboration with e. j. applewhite.

Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole. A stone by itself does not predict its mass interattraction for and by another stone. (102.00)