Domain Quote by Albert Einstein

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're…

— Edward Snowden

“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But”

— Jurgen Appelo

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that…

— Gregory Bateson

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

— Mark Twain

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

— Gary Hamel

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only…

— Albert Einstein

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

— William S. Burroughs

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap

Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the…

— W. Brian Arthur

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

— David Byrne

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

— Louise Erdrich