“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.” ProblemScienceProcessComputerSolveWeatherDespiteAspirationApplicationStableSensitivityDescribingUnstableVon NeumannMeteorology Author:Freeman Dyson
“Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.” WorldDesignInnovationFinancialInventionVersionsFinanceOperationsWheelsExceptionVariationSkepticalUnstableHail Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.” ChanceQualityRiskUnstableAmbiguous Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld