Quotes About Summing

It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.' I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.

I have given no summing up, no final verdict. Reality knows none.

We've seen that even in the simplest situations nonlinearities can interfere with a linear approach to aggregates. That point holds in general: nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.