Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Fragility is defined as a susceptibility to variation.”

— Rich Jolly

We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots…

— Peter Maurer

“Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.”

— Ian McDonald

“Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites—but often thwarts—our investigation and our understanding.”

— Dean Koontz

“Chaos... by its very definition cannot be controlled. Once introduced, all order and intention is rendered useless. The outcome of chaos can never be…

— Emily Thorne

“the systems most prone to failure are also our most important and are at the epicenter of our most urgent changes. When”

— Gene Kim

“one such as you cannot possibly understand how to maintain balance in a world flooded with chaos.”

— Pippa DaCosta

“System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1 maintains.”

— Daniel Kahneman

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

— David Christian

“anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control”

— Gyan Nagpal