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
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
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
“Interpretation of Complex Systems Kenyon B. De Greene All systems evolve, although the rates of evolution may vary over time both between… — L. Douglas Kiel 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
It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
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
A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines — Frederick Lenz 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
“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
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about… — Bill Gates 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
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow 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
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
It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems. — David Parnas Copy Share Image
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
