Habits Quote by Melanie Mitchell

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

“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

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules

— Robert Axtell

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all…

— Fritjof Capra

“Much has been written about complex nonhierarchical systems in which the behavior of the system is the result not of centralized command and control…

— Tim Brown

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

— William Ross Ashby

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

— Jacques Barzun

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and…

— Carl Jung

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

— Kevin Kelly

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex…

— Hari Kunzru

The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network…

— Fritjof Capra