Firsts Quote by John L. Casti

Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that…

— Pierre Omidyar

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches…

— Max Horkheimer

“Yet once biologists concluded that organisms are algorithms, they dismantled the wall between the organic and the inorganic, turned the computer revolution from a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language,…

— Fritjof Capra

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

— Tim Berners-Lee

“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This…

— Frank Herbert

“There are underlying principles at play in nature, from the fields, quanta, and forces of the universe to the ebb and flow of complexity,…

— Caleb Scharf

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated…

— Stephen Wolfram