Complex System Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical… — Herbert Spencer Jennings
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and… — Scott Woods
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that… — Hal Abelson
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after… — Richard E. Pattis
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in… — Lewis Thomas
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each… — Benjamin Hoff
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford
You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an… — Garrett Hardin
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate… — Ivan Pavlov
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with… — Ivan Pavlov
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to… — David Horowitz
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just… — Thomas Sowell
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough… — Jamais Cascio
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the… — Emma Goldman
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. — Sandra Day O'Connor
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to… — Simon Pegg
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence… — Geoffrey West
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system. — Miguel Nicolelis
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. — Kevin Kelly

Who Wrote These Complex System Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 21 Complex System Quotes as follows: