“Trying to make a difference in the creation of a better world, through writing, research and occasional consultancy, requires greater optimism than I can at times muster. But reaching out to […] practitioners elsewhere […] is a moral imperative if we are not merely to promote parochial self-interest. In the process, we may rediscover an ethics based on mutuality and reciprocity rather than on competition, to help us through hard times ahead.”

- David M. Smith (2004): “From location theory to moral philosophy: views from the fringe.”