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An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of…

— Karl Marx

“no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.”

— David Christian

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

System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen…

— John L. Casti

“From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however never been…

— Subhajit Ganguly

“The term we use for the unanticipated result from these interactions is emergence. While not all interactions create emergent effects, when emergence does occur…

— Rich Jolly

“complex system: a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective…

— Melanie Mitchell

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

“Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this demands help…

— Herman Bavinck

“If my opinion that substance requires a true unity were founded only on a definition I had formulated in opposition to common usage, *then…

— Huston Smith

“a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.”

— Donella H. Meadows

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak