Habits Quote by Tim Brown

“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

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules

— Robert Axtell

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like…

— Bill Mollison

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

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

— David Eagleman

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

“It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t…

— James S.A. Corey

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

— Stuart Kauffman

“General systems theory and cybernetics are deterministic while human actions are not!”

— Springer

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and…

— Anthony Stafford Beer

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the…

— Robert Heller