“The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.” ChallengesEconomicCitizensOffersBehaviorCompetitionComplexesPatternsCooperationDelicateEconomistPhysicistIntricateChemistStockholm Author:George Stigler
“It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.” WorldShouldProblemHomeAmericaChoicesOpportunityNationsSocialJusticePracticeClearGrowingRightsDangerCitizensEqualCapableConcernedStrongerSocial JusticeComplexesDefenseEducatedOur FutureEqual RightsDemonstratingTacklingComplex ProblemsProspering Author:John F. Kennedy
“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.” WorldFeelsImportantTodayNextPsychologyImpossiblePolicyDevelopmentCitizensOrdinaryComplexesMathPhysicsAstronomyAbstractDependentRelevanceClassical MusicLive For TodayPublic PolicyOrdinary CitizensActual Life Author:David Foster Wallace
“Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.” NeedsMadeTwoStatesGovernmentSufferingProcessPolicyCitizensWeaknessIndiaComplexesDrivenFlexibleGovernanceNeed A ChangeSimplification Author:Narendra Modi
“Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and that laws must be simple....and indeed that the entire legal code must be simple enough that every citizen knows the entire law. If a person doesn't know the law....he shouldn't be held liable for breaking it or freedom is greatly reduced.” IfsKnowsPersonsEnoughLawSimpleTaughtCitizensComplexesOppressionCodeLocksLiableMadisonHumeMontesquieu Author:Oliver DeMille
“It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.” PeopleTryingGovernmentCareTodayLevelsMillionsImpossibleEconomicCitizensTaxesComplexesManageHealth CareCodeAspirationRequirementsFederal GovernmentStandpointAmerican Citizens Author:Frederick W. Smith
“I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsGivingEnoughAgeAmericaYoungParentNumbersResponsibilityTeacherCitizensCallingMen And WomenComplexesRingsFuelGood TimesFossilsCompetentFossil FuelYoungstersTime To ThinkBest Teacher Author:Hyman Rickover
“The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.” LooksRealStatesHappensLeftTermDecisionCitiesNeededCitizensIndependentComplexesDefinitionsAgencyDevicesUnbelievableAbsentReal ThingsProliferationComplex Systems Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent?” YearsWholeBodyMillionsCitizensComplexesRangeNow And ThenContinentsLegislationBritons Author:Jean-Claude Juncker