To proclaim the most efficient as the best is nonsense. Best is that which is most effective in the circumstances whether efficient or not.

The mind cannot look into itself anymore than an eye can look into itself. Both can do no more than reflect on reflection.

Water does not always seek the lowest ground, as evaporation and snow on a mountain clearly demonstrate.

Order is not discipline imposed from without, but spontaneous harmony arising from within.

Quality will never bend a knee to measurement.

Human technologies must be made to function in complete, integral harmony with nature’s technologies. The magnitude of the change this requires is enormous, but not so enormous as the necessity.

No one hates truth who loves beauty.

Good writing consists of the simplest, clearest, fewest words that make the point.

The surest sign of a sick organization is ever-expanding rules and regulations; its terminal disease is ever increasing compulsion to enforce them.