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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Government
You
Generation
Every
Complex
Complex System
System
Teach
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
Benjamin Hoff
Music
Time
Added
Extremely
Complex
Complex System
System
Phrases
Purpose
Rituals
Steps
Particular
Court
Up
Precisely
Confucianism
Use
Used
Measured
Actions
Each
Prescribed
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.
Geoffrey West
You
Behavior
Enormous
Complex
Complex System
System
Evolved
City
Components
Emergence
Constrain
Laws
Could
Like
Without
Order
Them
Organism
Resilient
Number
There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can't build it back up overnight.
Gordon Bethune
You
World
Build
Down
Honolulu
Back
Back Up
Airlines
Complex
Airplane
Complex System
System
Runs
Take
Economy
Without
Overnight
Up
Very
Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
Irwin Rose
Change
Behavior
Other
State
Complex
Complex System
System
Variable
Steady
Rates
More
Study
Concentration
Know
Likely
Reactions
Effect
Cell
Want
Formation
Product
Measuring
Initial
Function
Biologists
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
Ivan Pavlov
Animal
World
State
Complex
Consisting
Complex System
System
Total
Both
Clear
Almost
Highly
Another
Parts
Equilibrium
Surrounding
Infinite
Which
Organism
Connected
Series
It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.
Jamais Cascio
Best
Our
Approximation
Complex
Complex System
System
Pretty
Atmosphere
Models
Notion
Rough
Ridiculously
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget
Game
Own
Extremely
Say
Complex
Rules
Complex System
System
Admirable
Constitute
Laws
Instance
Contains
Institutions
Most
Boy
Jurisprudence
Children
Social
Social Institutions
Games
Code
Marbles
Played
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
Kevin Kelly
Work
Simple
Build
Way
Complex
Complex System
System
Systems
Very
Works
Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
Lawrence Kudlow
Business
Important
Corporate
Complex
Complex System
System
Rates
Opaque
Simplify
Smaller
Also
Reform
Just
Tax
Tax Rates
Tax Reform
Cutting
Should
Large
Include
Nearly
Need
Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Sense
Interpretation
Everyone
Complex
Slightly
Easier
Complex System
System
More
Becomes
Different
Gain
Whole
Interpretations
Gather