Gregory Bateson

"Technology amplifies both wisdom and foolishness."

"Justice requires understanding the full context of relationship."

"The future is not predetermined—it emerges from present choices."

"Perseverance is fidelity to the pattern you recognize as true."

"Music is the language of pattern in time."

"The political is personal, and the personal is systemic."

"War arises when communication channels become severed."

"Inspiration is the sudden recognition of a hidden pattern."

"Success is learning to swim with the current rather than against it."

"The greatest discoveries come from asking better questions."

"Happiness is alignment between your actions and the larger patterns you perceive."

"The pattern which connects is the essence of all understanding."

"Information is a difference that makes a difference."

"We are not thinking unless we are thinking about differences."

"The map is not the territory."

"Mind is the integrative principle of life."

"Nature does not proceed by leaps; it changes gradually in response to circumstance."

"Break the pattern which connects all living things, and you break life itself."

"The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself."

"Wisdom is the knowledge of difference and similarity."

"All pathology is fundamentally the same."

"The greatest paradox of ecology is that you cannot do one thing."

"Anything that is repeated becomes context, and context is either invisible or becomes what we call form."

"The need for information to maintain organization is the price of complexity."

"Most of the basic answers should be obvious."

"The act of knowing has an almost mathematical elegance about it."

"Communication requires that both parties understand the same message."

"Identity is the echo of a person's actions."

"There is no such thing as objective experience; all knowledge is filtered through perception."

"The purpose of a system is what it does."