Quotes About Chaos

I am the moment in which explodes the Twentieth Century's great menage à trois between chaos and faith and memory.

As an example, shifting your pencil from one side of your desk to the other today could change the gravitational forces on Jupiter enough to shift its position from one side of the Sun to the other a billion years from now. The unpredictability of the solar system over very long times is of course ironic since this was the prototypical system that inspired Laplacian determinism. (Tremaine, 2011)

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to break the rules.

Wagner found that after an initial exposure to the numerical test, "sleeping on the problem" more than doubled the test subjects' ability to discover the hidden rule. The mental recombinations of sleep helped them explore the full range of solutions to the puzzle, detecting patterns that they had failed to perceive in their initial training period. The work of dreams turns out to be a particularly chaotic, yet productive, way of exploring the adjacent possible.

The tradition of the commonplace book contains a central tension between order and chaos, between the desire for methodical arrangement, and the desire for surprising new links of association.

Science does not yet have a solid explanation for the brain's chaos states, but Thatcher and other researchers believe that the electric noise of the chaos mode allows the brain to experiment with new links between neurons that would otherwise fail to connect in more orderly settings.

good ideas are more likely to emerge in environments that contain a certain amount of noise and error.

Being correct is like the phase-lock states of the human brain, all the neurons firing in perfect synchrony. We need the phase-lock state for the same reason we need truth: a world of complete error and chaos would be unmanageable, on a social and a neurochemical level. (Not to mention genetic.) But leaving some room for generative error is important, too. Innovative environments thrive on useful mistakes, and suffer when the demands of quality control overwhelm them.

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

That's right: when it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

I love smashing stuff.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.

Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.