Chaos Quotes - Page 29

• Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Simple, Technique, Facts

  "When Things Start to Think". Book by Neil Gershenfeld, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

  Kofi Annan

  Risk, Suffering, Killing

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• When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

  Ben Okri

  Eras, Deities, Chiefs

  Ben Okri (2015). “Stars Of The New Curfew”, p.71, Random House

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• Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

  Steven Hall

  Texas

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Vanity, Political, Berlin

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• Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.

  Jim Calhoun

  Team, Blessed, Kids

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• Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.

  Jon Foreman

  Stars, Pain, Home

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• Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

  James Whistler

  Beautiful, Wise, Artist

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

  Alex Garland

  Home, Democracy, Paper

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.155, Penguin

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Details, Add

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• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

  Grady Booch

  Thinking

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.31, Pearson Education

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• The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

  Romare Bearden

  Art, Organize, Whole

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• The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Reality, Rorschach, Definitions

  Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Organized, Disorganized

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• It is said that when you miss someone... then love will come when you meet again... Just like the game of hide and seek, no matter where it hides or even if you can't see it... He must be there waiting somewhere for me...Amid the countless chaos... Just like the sincerest prayers... two people in love will surely meet again.

  Oh Eun-young

  Missing Someone, Prayer, Drama

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• In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Country, Book

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.6, Moody Publishers

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• Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

  Simon McBurney

  Theatre, Each Day, Never Quit

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• Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

  Norman Spinrad

  Order, Enemy

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• All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Trying, Teeth

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Media, White

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• There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Creativity, Science, Diversity

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• Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

  Fuxi

  Growth, Looks, Crowds

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