The least obvious part of a system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the… — Donella H. Meadows
The least obvious part of a system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior.
Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
How is it that one way of seeing the world becomes so widely shared that institutions, technologies, production systems, buildings, cities, become shaped around that way of seeing?
p. 169
There always will be limits to growth.
The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole.

