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The key lesson of complexity is that a lack of constraints can only be chaotic, whereas over constraint leads to catastrophic failure - Dave Snowden, http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/05/tommy_can_you_hear_me…
The key lesson of complexity is that a lack of constraints can only be chaotic, whereas over constraint leads to catastrophic failure - Dave Snowden, http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/05/tommy_can_you_hear_me…
The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood - Alice M. Rivlin (b. 1931) U.S. economist. Reviving the American Dream (1992)
The complexity of the present world is shattering expectations in every arena, most especially, in the geography of the soul. Lost as we all are, we can understand why some retreat into fundamentalisms that provide archaic certainties, holding houses of containment before the onrush of new realities. Others wander in a spiritual void, overwhelmed by the loss of all pattern, looking to material accomplishments to replace the loss of essence. Still others flee into "replacement strategies"-- psychotherapy, drugs, sex, growth seminars, travel - Jean Houston http://www.dailygrail.com/Religion-and-Spirituality/2010/3/The-Future-G…
Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form - Jean Luc Godard
Most of us think of our DNA as sort of locked in our body, waiting to be passed on to our children, but in fact your DNA at every moment is interacting with your environment, interacting with every bite of food you take, interacting with your thoughts, your feelings, and various things, so when you take a bite of food, literally, the information -- beyond the calories in the food -- goes right into your cells, into your DNA, and switches on genes, or turns off genes based on what information is in that food - Dr. Mark Hyman
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: "This is the cause!" - Nikolai Tolstoy, War and Peace
Given the complexity of our planetary home and human affairs and our wrong education, it is not surprising that there should be so few people who think and deal rightly with the global destiny and governance of this planet - Robert Muller
For every complex question there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong - H.L. Mencken
Categorisation is dangerous as you miss out the fuzzy bits between - Dave Snowden, http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/03/km_hong_kong.php
Everything is fragmented, and that's good, many believe.