Habits Quote by Rich Jolly

“3. Look for Building Blocks—Look at your diagram of feedback loops and delays to identify potential building blocks, either linked feedback loops or archetypes.”

— Rich Jolly

“Key Idea for Qualitative Dynamics: Structure Impacts Behavior Through Time”

— Rich Jolly

“5. Search for Leverage Points and Potential Unintended Consequences of Interventions—When a model produces dynamic behavior like the real system, start to examine the…

— Rich Jolly

“When we, system dynamicists, see a pattern persist in many parts of a system over long periods, we assume that it has causes embedded…

— Donella H. Meadows

“In the early phases, the structure exhibits exponential growth. This identifies the reinforcing loop. However, the balancing loop is effectively dormant. It's only later…

— Rich Jolly

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

— Stuart Kauffman

“In system dynamic simulation, this data set is referred to as the reference behavior pattern (RBP).”

— Rich Jolly

“Qualitative system dynamics is a powerful tool to help categorize behaviors as endogenous or exogenous with respect to the system under study.”

— Rich Jolly

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”

— Fritjof Capra

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

— John Henry Holland

“Span behaviors are those done for a limited and defined period of time”

— Shea Matthew Fisher

“Modeling—a process to develop a representation of reality to understand, communicate, or predict.”

— Rich Jolly