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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

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a…

— Francisco Varela

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior…

— Robert L. Devaney

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

— William Ross Ashby

Where you end up depends on the trajectory.

— Simon Quperlier

“Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium,”

— James Gleick

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of…

— Donella Meadows

Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways

— Alvin Toffler

No system of balance functions automatically.

— Kenneth Waltz

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

— David Allen

You have to stop in order to change direction.

— Erich Fromm