Quotes About Dynamics

The gas price is determined by the market and effectively creates an auction for inclusion in the next Ethereum block.

Most people in a company, frankly, are not going to understand how communities are built and operate, but many people in the community aren't going to understand the dynam- ics of how that company operates. - Jono Bacon

doing the same thing twice will not predictably or necessarily lead to the same result. It is this characteristic that makes static checklists and best practices, while valuable, insufficient to prevent catastrophes from occurring. See

We need to understand how the dynamics of innovation, technological advances, urbanization, financial markets, social networks, and population dynamics are interconnected and how their evolving interrelationships fuel growth and societal change—and, as manifestations of human endeavors, how they are all integrated into a holistic interacting systemic framework . . . and whether such a dynamically evolving system is ultimately sustainable.

The existence of these remarkable regularities strongly suggests that there is a common conceptual framework underlying all of these very different highly complex phenomena and that the dynamics, growth, and organization of animals, plants, human social behavior, cities, and companies are, in fact, subject to similar generic "laws.

Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to inspire and test hypotheses, and these have proven to give insight into social structure and dynamics. Many involve surveys and responses to various questionnaires and are subject to limitations that depend on the role of the experimental teams who have to interact with the subjects.

is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions

Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.

Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses.

The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in ways not predicted by its components.

Their three flaws: 1) they think in statics not dynamics, 2) they think in low, not high, dimensions, 3) they think in terms of actions, never interactions.

Mark Buchanan's Ubiquity, Philip Ball's Critical Mass, and Paul Ormerod's Why Most Things Fail.

complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.

An insight into how the mechanisms of religion and the transmission of morals obey the same renormalization dynamics as dietary laws—and how we can show that morality is more likely to be something enforced by a minority.

The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in ways not predicted by its components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units.

because the interactions are not necessarily linear.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

Bottom line: I don't believe anyone who says they got the answers to society's ills because society's ills mutate faster than the flu

I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.

My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.