“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
“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
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 Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.” — Cal Newport 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
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
“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
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 complex systems, one can think about linear interactions and complex or nonlinear interactions. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Public figures talk and act as if environmental change will be linear and gradual. But the Earth's systems are highly complex, and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I… — Lennart Bengtsson 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
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
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more… — Adam Frank 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
“In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings 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
