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
In complex systems, one can think about linear interactions and complex or nonlinear interactions. — Zeynep Tufekci 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
“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.” — Per Bak Copy Share Image
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. — Steve Jobs 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
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
“In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As” — Gene Kim 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
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
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
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a… — Margaret J. Wheatley 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
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
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
“Simple Complex systems can arise from simple rules. It's not that we want to survive, it's that we've been drugged and made… — Rae Armantrout 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
“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
Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness,… — Roger Penrose 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
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
“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
“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
“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
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman 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
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that,… — Julian Sanchez 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
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
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually.” — Atul Gawande 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
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
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
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
