“We see an ever-increasing move toward inter and trans- disciplinary attacks upon problems in the real world ... The system scientist has a central role to play in this new order, and that role is to first of all understand ways and means of how to encode the natural world into "good" formal structures.” WorldWayFirstsMeanRealPlayProblemMovingOrderNaturalRolesScientistStructureReal WorldFormalNatural WorldTrans Author:John L. Casti
“When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.” ProblemBigsSufferingNextEventsPossibilityInternetCrisisNuclearComplexityOnlineKillersFluEuroBig ProblemsProliferationOverloadNuclear ProliferationEuro Crisis Author:John L. Casti
“Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.” TryingProblemCreatingCornersSolveDebtBarsAlcoholics Author:John L. Casti
