Application Quote by Freeman Dyson

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

— John von Neumann

“When we have a tightly-coupled architecture, small changes can result in large scale failures. As”

— Gene Kim

“Imagine a rotating sphere that is 8,000 miles in diameter, with a bumpy surface, surrounded by a 25-mile-deep mixture of different gases whose concentrations…

— Robert T. Ryan

There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in,…

— Heraclitus

“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than our relationship…

— Heidi Cullen

We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer on the…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

— Rudy Rucker

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”

— Fritjof Capra

“The essence of instability [in fundamental forces of nature] is that small fluctuations get amplified.”

— Max Tegmark

“Stability, after all, is only sought in situations of significant flux.”

— Ashley Dawson

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former…

— Henri Poincare

“Chaotic systems come in two shapes. Level one chaos is chaos that does not react to predictions about it. The weather, for example, is…

— Yuval Noah Harari