Agents Quote by Robert Axtell

“complex system: a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective…

— Melanie Mitchell

“diverse, connected, interdependent entities whose behavior is determined by rules, which may adapt, but need not. The interactions of these entities often produce phenomena…

— Scott E. Page

“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

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual…

— John Henry Holland

“The existence of these remarkable regularities strongly suggests that there is a common conceptual framework underlying all of these very different highly complex phenomena…

— Geoffrey West

“is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions”

— Geoffrey West

Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way…

— Steven Pressfield

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

— Timothy Leary

System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen…

— John L. Casti

Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how…

— Bonnie Bassler

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless…

— Robert Greene

“Many processes that seem to occur in nature randomly and without any order are, in fact, being governed by some visible or not-so-visible physical…

— Yunus A. Cengel