Archetype Quote by Peter Senge

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

— Johann Friedrich Herbart

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a…

— Francisco Varela

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a…

— Celia Rees

“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

We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central…

— John L. Casti

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

— Marcus Sakey

With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what…

— John Henry Holland

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

— Edward C. Prescott

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

“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