More Quotes from Complex Adaptive Systems

Just a couple more of the quotes that I loved from the book.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

-- Ts'ai Ken T'an.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance.

Off-by-one Error

Affairs of people are insignificant.
Affairs of other people are insignificant.

complex adaptive systems

Reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Complex-Adaptive-Systems-Introduction-Computational/dp/0691127026

Nice book so far, good source for finding good programming exercises. They have used a lot of words to describe the fractal nature of the edge of chaos, without using the word itself.

From Flatland

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
-- Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland.