Complex System Quotes - Page 1

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Government
Generations
Teach
Complex
Complex System
Generation
System
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
Kevin Kelly / Editor
Literature
Simple
Way
Build
Works
Complex
Complex System
System
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With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Miguel Nicolelis / University Professor
Billions
Human Brain
Neurons
Archetypal
Complex
Complex System
Interactions
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It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
Jamais Cascio /
Accepted
Approximation
Atmosphere
Models
Notion
Rough
Complex
Complex System
Ridiculously
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Margaret J. Wheatley / Writer
Different
Easier
Gains
Interpretation
Whole
Becomes
Complex
Complex System
Gain
Gather
Sense
Slightly
System
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Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.
Tim Harford / Economist
Intertwined
Complex
Complex System
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There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can't build it back up overnight.
Gordon Bethune / Executive
Honolulu
Airlines
Back Up
Complex
Complex System
Overnight
Runs
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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.
Geoffrey West / Physicist
Behavior
Cities
Constrain
Emergence
Enormous
Law
Order
Resilient
Complex
Complex System
Organism
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Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
Benjamin Hoff / Author
Confucianism
Court
Particular
Phrases
Purpose
Steps
Used
Actions
Added
Complex
Complex System
Each
Extremely
Rituals
Measured
Precisely
Prescribed
System
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Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget / Psychologist
Admirable
Code
Games
Instance
Jurisprudence
Social Institutions
Rules
Complex
Complex System
Constitute
Extremely
Marbles
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Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
Lawrence Kudlow / Economist
Corporate
Cutting
Opaque
Tax Reform
Nearly
Complex System
Include
Rates
Smaller
Tax Rates
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It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
Ivan Pavlov / Physiologist
Animal
Connected
Equilibrium
Infinite
Series
World
Complex
Complex System
Consisting
Total
Highly
Organism
Parts
Surrounding
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Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
Irwin Rose /
Behavior
Concentration
Formation
Function
Measuring
Reactions
Steady
Biologists
Cell
Complex System
Initial
Rates
Variable
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Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
Ivan Pavlov / Physiologist
Connections
Cutting
Laboratory
Order
Particular
Series
Canal
Chemical
Complex
Complex System
Cut
Digestive
Phenomena
Finally
Investigate
Parts
Resolved
Several
Thus
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
Edmund Morgan / Author
Clue
Human Condition
Scholarship
Condition
Apart
Beliefs
Carried
Complex System
Dealing
Intrinsic
Puritans
Reached
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