Adaptive Quote by John Henry Holland

“idea models—models that are simple enough to study via mathematics or computers but that nonetheless capture fundamental properties of natural complex systems.”

— Melanie Mitchell

“Modeling—a process to develop a representation of reality to understand, communicate, or predict.”

— Rich Jolly

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art,…

— John Henry Holland

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

Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

— Fred Emery

“Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to…

— Robert D. Austin

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

— Edward C. Prescott

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

— Donella Meadows

Darwin's principle of natural selection leads to the prediction that the proper way to analyze any evolutionary development is to see the new features…

— Stephen Jay Gould

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to…

— John Hagel

“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