"Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable."

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Source : "Elements of the system dynamics method". Book by Jorgen Randers, p. 27, 1980.

Donella Meadows

“I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.”
“I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!”
“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns”
“The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!”
“No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.”
“Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.”

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