Matthew E Edgar

“with a shift of natural sciences into systems thinking and complexity, and social sciences and humanities doing the same, it seems that they once again seem to come closer to each other. Not because the social sciences and humanities are becoming “harder” and more quantifiable, but because natural sciences are becoming “softer” with an emphasis on unpredictability, irreducibility, non-linearity, time-irreversibility, adaptivity, self-organization, emergence – the sort of things that may always have been better suited to capture the social order.”
― Sidney Dekker, Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

“It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it—a costly myth.”
― Mark Schwartz, Adaptive Ethics for Digital Transformation: A New Approach for Enterprise Leaders

“Studying and enhancing the “information environment” for decision-making, as Rasmussen and Svedung put it, can be a good place to start.46 This information environment, after all, is where assessments are made, decisions are shaped, in which local rationality is created. It is the place where the social and the technical meet; where risk itself is constructed.”
― Sidney Dekker, Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

“Our technologies have got ahead of our theories. Our theories are still fundamentally reductionist, componential and linear. Our technologies, however, are increasingly complex, emergent and non-linear.”
― Sidney Dekker, Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems