Complex systems Quote by Zeynep Tufekci

Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated…

— Bernard Lietaer

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

— Jane Jacobs

“Complacency leads to redundancy”

— Poppet

Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy…

— John L. Casti

A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a…

— Fritjof Capra

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

— Eric Greitens

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“To be resilient is to be aware, adaptive, diverse, integrated, and self-regulating. These characteristics are all present, to different degrees and in different manifestations,…

— Judith Rodin

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

— Rob Hopkins

With resilience you are learning to be flexible and take feedback on how people are experiencing what you are building, you're listening to what…

— Alexis Maybank

“we move our entire system: From fragile to resilient From extractive to regenerative From disconnected to reconnected”

— Katherine Collins