R. Buckminster Fuller, 1975:

"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desireable.  Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.  Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability.  Thus the specialist's brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious.  In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.  Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals.  It has also resulted n the individual's leaving responsibility in thinking and social action to others.  Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war. 

We are not seeking a license to ramble wordily.  We are intent only upon being adequately concise.  General systems science discloses the existence of minimum sets of variable factors that uniquely determine and govern each and every system.  Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.  Let us not make the error of inadequacy in examining our most comprehensive inventory of experience and thoughts regarding the evoluting affairs of humanity."

-R. Buckminster Fuller (1975:xxv), Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking.  MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc. 1975.