human beings fail the way all complex systems fail…

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

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

— I. J. Good

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live…

— David Graeber

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and…

— Thomas Sowell

“Interpretation of Complex Systems Kenyon B. De Greene All systems evolve, although the rates of evolution may vary over time both between and within…

— L. Douglas Kiel

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

— Jurgen Habermas

It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part…

— Patricia Churchland

The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist:…

— Joaquin Fuster

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

— Tim Harford

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

— Michael Behe

What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in…

— Jean Dubuffet

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to…

— Charlie Munger

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

— Frederick Lenz

“all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point—often called…

— M. Mitchell Waldrop