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When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
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When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
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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.

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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

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There were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that we have somebody that can go to that town, change that system, grow employment, change the whole way in which it works and ship power money and influence back to the states. So I'm optimistic about it.

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