“If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.”

—  Kenneth E. Boulding

Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: Russell Ackoff " Russell Ackoff: A Lifetime of Systems Thinking; Editor’s note http://www.pegasuscom.com/levpoints/ackoff_a-lifetime-of-systems-thinking.html" in: Leverage Points, Issue 115.
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British-American economist 1910–1993

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