My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex… — William Ross Ashby Copy Share Image
“human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually.” — Atul Gawande 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
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin 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
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
“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
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
Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning… — Matt Blaze 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
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs 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
In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on. — Nicholas Lemann 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
“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
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
“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.” — Per Bak 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
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
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. — Noam Chomsky 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
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 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
