AdrianNever-Ending Stories in Praxis (Quote of the Day)“[…] the longer one works on […] a project without actually concluding it, the more remote the expected completion date becomes. Is this…Jan 2Jan 2
AdrianNetworks: Top 10 Quotes“Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
AdrianComplexity: Top 10 Quotes“In general, complexity and precision bear an inverse relation to one another in the sense that, as the complexity of a problem increases…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
AdrianComplex Systems: Top 10 Quotes“The complexity of a system is no guarantee of its accuracy.” (John P Jordan, “Cost accounting; principles and practice”, 1920)Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
AdrianThe Butterfly Effect: Top 10 Quotes“[…] the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand-fold. Admit, for instance, the existence of a minimum…Nov 14, 2020Nov 14, 2020
AdrianInformation Overload: Top 10 Quotes“Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision makers have fairly limited…Oct 24, 2020Oct 24, 2020
AdrianCausality: Just the Quotes“In all disciplines in which there is systematic knowledge of things with principles, causes, or elements, it arises from a grasp of those…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
AdrianHolistic View (Top 10 Quotes)“[Holism is] the tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution […]” (Jan Smuts…Oct 10, 2020Oct 10, 2020
AdrianThe Web of Life (Top 10 Quotes)“As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of…Oct 10, 2020Oct 10, 2020
AdrianCollective Intelligence (Quotes)“We must therefore establish a form of decision-making in which voters need only ever pronounce on simple propositions, expressing their…Oct 10, 2020Oct 10, 2020
AdrianEcology (Top 10 Quotes)“[…] for as all organic beings are striving, it may be said, to seize on each place in the economy of nature, if any one species does not…Oct 10, 2020Oct 10, 2020