most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system’s ever-changing configurations. The game of chess… — John H. Holland Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“idea models—models that are simple enough to study via mathematics or computers but that nonetheless capture fundamental properties of natural complex systems.” — Melanie Mitchell Copy Share Image
“we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
“This is the reality of operating complex systems; no single person can see the whole system and understand how all the pieces… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause… — Scott A. Minnich Copy Share Image
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Simple Complex systems can arise from simple rules. It's not that we want to survive, it's that we've been drugged and made… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax,… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,… — Julian Sanchez Copy Share Image
“AS A KID GROWING UP IN A RURAL PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY in the 1930s and 1940s, Bill McGowan never dreamed of a… — Scott Woolley Copy Share Image
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability.… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“Complex systems produce complicated results, and still there are identifiable patterns: Patriarchy is a system that delivers material benefits to men—unequally depending… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Conventional economics is the dominant intellectual rationalization of today’s world order. As we’ve overextended the growth phase of our global adaptive cycle,… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how… — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy. — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In many complex systems, efficiency, redundancy, and resiliency pull in different directions: More efficient systems, which are cheaper, eliminate redundancies, which provide… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
I think one of the things we learned from the physicists and also the theoretical biologists is the idea that when you're… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not… — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
