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
“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
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
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
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
“In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
“importance, essence, and averaging. The importance of diversity in complex systems is the central theme of this book. Why does diversity matter?… — Scott E. Page Copy Share Image
“all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance… — M. Mitchell Waldrop Copy Share Image
What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
