Complex Systems Quotes

Complex Systems Quote of the day

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

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

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.