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“I was sorry to cut short the celebrations in mathematics departments around the country,” he later said, “but it turned out I was only slightly dead. The surgeons have done wonders, as they will be the first to tell you. So now I am back—in my next iteration, you might say.”
Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.”
“In the conservative region far from the chaotic edge, individual elements coalesce slowly, showing no clear pattern.” IAN MALCOLM
“Because he was on the passenger manifest of the flight from Costa Rica—but he wasn’t on the plane when it landed. My contact in Costa Rica says he checked out of his hotel in San José before the flight, and never went back. Didn’t take any other flight out of the city. So, uh, for the moment, I’m afraid that Richard Levine has disappeared.”
and he realized in that moment that despite all his planning, despite all his clever deductions, things had gone terribly wrong, and he was about to die.
“Self-organization elaborates in complexity as the system advances toward the chaotic edge.” IAN MALCOLM
“In the intermediate phase, swiftly developing complexity within the system hides the risk of imminent chaos. But the risk is there.” IAN MALCOLM
