Behaviour Quote by William Ross Ashby

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just…

— Vivienne Ming

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to…

— Niklaus Wirth

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

— Noam Chomsky

“Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system’s ever-changing configurations. The game of chess provides a…

— John H. Holland

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

— George E. P. Box

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex…

— Hari Kunzru

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

— Rupert Sheldrake

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“We can see how our world is, in many ways, becoming more complex, fast-paced, and unpredictable. As a result, the problems we face are…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

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