Complex systems Quote by Dominic Cummings Download Open image “Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.” — Dominic Cummings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complex systems Control Hard Predict Understand
“It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.” — Per Bak Copy Share Image
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. — Noam Chomsky 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
Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In the commercial world, big companies mostly die within a few decades because they cannot maintain an internal system to keep them aligned to… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Fundamental to real expertise is 1: whether the informational structure of the environment is sufficiently regular that it's possible to make good predictions and… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The panic over Sputnik brought many good things such as a huge increase in science funding. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
I make judgments about people and ideas individually - for me, parties are just a vehicle of convenience. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high leverage. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people make mistakes… — Dominic Cummings 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
