Always Quote by Henry Cloud

I don't like closed systems.

— Anonymous

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

— Noam Chomsky

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

— Hugh Mackay

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on…

— Nick Saban

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

— William Irwin Thompson

“all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point—often called…

— M. Mitchell Waldrop

The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an…

— Connie Willis

Shift often from openness to closure.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Arriving at the edge of chaos is a logical endpoint for drift. At the edge of chaos, systems have tuned themselves to the point…

— Sidney Dekker

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory,…

— John Cleese

The main character of any living system is openness.

— Ilya Prigogine

“When we, system dynamicists, see a pattern persist in many parts of a system over long periods, we assume that it has causes embedded…

— Donella H. Meadows