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“Inventions were not like your children. Your children were all your flaws shown to you in a way that made you love them: your worst made good. Inventions were your best attempt at beautiful thought. They were objective; they worked or they did not. They had purpose, whether they achieved it or not. They were yours always, in that they did not leave you, or turn away.”
― Light from Other Stars
― Light from Other Stars
“Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.”
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“Here was one coin with two sides. Here was order, with randomness emerging, and then one step further away was randomness with its own underlying order.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.”
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“THE MANDELBROT SET IS the most complex object in mathematics, its admirers like to say. An eternity could not be enough time to see it all, its disks studded with prickly thorns, its spirals and filaments curling outward and around, bearing bulbous molecules that hang, infinitely variegated, like grapes on God's personal vine.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
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