Quotes About Systems

When constrained systems, those hungry for natural disorder, collapse, as they are eventually bound to, since they are fragile, failure is never seen as the result of fragility. Rather, such failure is interpreted as the product of poor forecasting.

Lo único que digo aquí es que no debemos estar ciegos a la antifragilidad natural de los sistemas ni a su capacidad para cuidarse solos, y que debemos reprimir la tendencia a dañarlos y fragilizarlos negándoles la ocasión de hacerlo.

I will only very briefly discuss the crisis of 2008 (which took place after the publication of the book, and which was a lot of things, but not a Black Swan, only the result of fragility in systems built upon ignorance—and denial—of the notion of Black Swan events. You know with near certainty that a plane flown by an incompetent pilot will eventually crash).

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.

While errors made by traders are confined and distributed, those made by computerized systems go wild

empirically, complex systems do not have obvious one-dimensional cause-and-effect mechanisms, and that under opacity, you do not mess with such a system.

parts and whole differ because what matters are the interactions between such parts.

detest the ruthlessness of selection, the inexorable disloyalty of Mother Nature. I detest the notion of improvement thanks to harm to others. As a humanist, I stand against the antifragility of systems at the expense of individuals, for if you follow the reasoning, this makes us humans individually irrelevant.

direction, towards a world of bad systems, bad leadership, and bad followership. The question then is, How do we redirect our steps in a hurry? In other words, where do we begin and have the best chance of success?

Mississippi State University and other institutions are established leaders in the development and integration of unmanned aerial systems.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

It may be satisfying to castigate the likes of Geithner and the heads of Lehman Brothers and AIG, but safety experts like Perrow know it is far more productive to design better systems than to hope for better people.

One of the key lessons of the Web 2.0 era is this: Users add value. But only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application via explicit means. Therefore, Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and building value as a side-effect of ordinary use of the application. As noted above, they build systems that get better the more people use them.

The Navy wanted to see just how effective her new quieting systems were.

How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. — Grace Hopper

on.  The main one is the PC, but Minecraft is also available for gaming systems.  So, you must figure out where you would like to play the game and get the necessary software. I prefer to play on my PC.  This offers me quick access to the internet so that I can fight other players and gather resources.  I also like this because I can find advice at any time while I'm

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.

Often they were arranged according to the whim of the owner, as scientific classification was still in flux, new systems evolving all the time. Categorising a universe that shifted every time a new ship blew into port proved both necessary and a challenge....some classified shells as "knobbed" versus "wrinkled," "the right lip broad" versus,"parallel lips," or listed insects as "naked wings," "sheathed wings" or "creeping.

Germany, a Wassenaar member, already has a law that effectively prohibits the sale of exploits as well as the practice of giving them away for free, something that security researchers do regularly among themselves to test systems and improve security.