Quotes About Chaos

In a sense, a collection of dirty dishes is a traffic jam.

In the first instant of seeing, of knowing, Catell heard the terrible sounds of everything that breaks, bursts, and rips apart beyond repair, and the mad turning of all that moves, speeds, dashes about for a while, turning like a giant wheel, around, around. Then the wheel stopped.

Catell reached forward, lunging and the world jarred with a screeching searing flame of red that weaved, burst, and then sank sharply into itself, leaving nothing but a total dead black.

When everything has become the center, there is no longer any valid center; when everything is transmitting, the allegedly central transmitter is lost in the tangle of messages.

an oasis of tranquillity in the heart of a nightmare

Mathematical theory tells us that when a dynamical system has two kinds of nonlinear feedback loop with different periods, these two mechanisms are likely to interact nonlinearly and may generate erratic, unpredictable-looking behavior known as mathematical chaos (Gleick 1987).

Flat spaces are the first battlefield you lose in the war with your stuff.

Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.

entropy increases'? Everything falls apart eventually.

If "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted," then there is no purpose or grand cosmic scheme to life beyond what we choose to impose or believe. To some this is cynicism. For the Chaos Magician, it is a breath of dizzying freedom.

Chaos Magic is not about discarding all rules and restraints, but the process of discovering the most effective guidelines and disciplines which enable you to effect change in the world.

The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary instance of the chaos and anarchy associated with collapsed states. In fact, the genocide was the product of order, authoritarianism, decades of modern political theorizing and indoctrination, and one of the most meticulously admistered states in history.

The absence of war did not mean that the vacuum would necessarily be replaced by peace. In the no man's land between Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, Europe revolted and Britain faced chaos as the civil unrest of wartime spread.

I believe that in my generation, the belief in a platonic mathematics has often been a substitute religion for people who have abandoned or even rejected traditional religions. Where can certainty be found in a chaotic universe that often seems meaningless? Mathematics has often been claimed to be the sole source of absolute certainty.

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.

But nothing surprises me now. I've grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.

There was more than a little truth in Trotsky's angry accusation of April 1912, after he had suffered the theft of the title of his journal [ Pravda ], that Lenin nourished himself on discord and chaos. But so did all revolutionary politicians, for revolutionary changes issue from profound crises. The bloody trenches of World War I created an enormous new revolutionary constituency, and only those leaders who knew how to exploit it would be prepared for the struggles that lay ahead.

we must simply develop our spiritual potential in order to escape the chaos of a purely empirical relationship with the universe.

Unpredictability and predictability coexist uneasily in the intricately interlocking systems that make up our bodies, our societies, and the cosmos. How predictable something is depends on what we are trying to predict, how far into the future, and under what circumstances.

When looking inside some kids' desks, you understand why hurricanes are named after people.

Nw a kind of no-man's-land occupied by a neo-Elizabethan hugger-mugger of racketeers, drug dealers, gangsters and abortionists, the shark-toothed area seemed only a rowdier version of the city all around — a freewheeling, free-spending center of free enterprise.

We survive, in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.

Existen kilómetros de película con todo tipo de aparatos que se enfrentan en los cielos del mundo entero desde septiembre de 1939 hasta final de la segunda Guerra Mundial. Y todos se parecen. Una mancha imprecisa, oscura, surge de la niebla de la película en blanco y negro, destella, se parte en trozos, humea y después se desintegra