Assumption Quote by Nicholas Negroponte

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

Nature Is God's Social Network

— Jim Hargadon Wwwcelticmaverickcom

“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand…

— Stuart Kauffman

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Up until now, some of us actually thought that we created and organized the systems in which we work. But should it turn out…

— Harrison Owen

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

— Gary Snyder

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

— Francis Bacon

To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations,…

— Tom Atlee

Nature knows best how to organise.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum…

— Jonathan Haidt