Complex Systems Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they… — Benjamin Carson
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
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least… — Niklaus Wirth
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces… — Roger Penrose
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems… — Seth Lloyd
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle,… — Julian Sanchez
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann
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
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns. — William Ross Ashby
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
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that… — Russell L. Ackoff
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
Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater… — Stephen Jay Gould
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

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