Complex systems Quote by Atul Gawande Download Open image ““human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually.”” — Atul Gawande ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complex systems Failure
“The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We have a system that is designed to fail us all, and we all do nothing about it.” — Rob Al'dred Copy Share Image
“Failure is something inevitable; if we want to achieve something in life than we have to exponentially increase our failure rate.” — Dhruv Avdhesh Copy Share Image
“Systems are organic, living creations: if people stop working on them and improving them, they die.” — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“Failure gives us the opportunity to look at ourselves and realize we are human".” — Charlena Jackson Copy Share Image
“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.” — Per Bak Copy Share Image
“Everything made by human is bound to fail and every life in nature is bound to die.” — Balan Gothandaraman Copy Share Image
“sometimes you have to fail in order to succeed. Whether we want it or not, there is an order in the universe. It’s hard… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Wilson spent several days camped out in one government office after another until she had secured an exemption. Unbelievably, she and her husband cleared… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“8. Chapter 4 describes the birth of the assisted-living facility concept (Park Place), designed by Keren Wilson to provide her disabled mother, Jessie, with… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“..how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have. When you are young and healthy,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend he escaped unscathed. The extended period of low blood pressure damaged an optic nerve and left him essentially blind in one… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life, — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“an average of $94,000 during the last year of life with a metastatic breast cancer. Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy. — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Interpretation of Complex Systems Kenyon B. De Greene All systems evolve, although the rates of evolution may vary over time both between and within… — L. Douglas Kiel 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
It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it is part… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist:… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
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
“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
