Among complex systems, stability is typically meta-stability, which is preserved through cycling, whilst growth and shrinkage are often components of a larger-scale, cyclic wave. (Nick Land)

Among complex systems, stability is typically meta-stability, which is preserved through cycling, whilst growth and shrinkage are often components of a larger-scale, cyclic wave.

Nick Land

Related topics

complex cycling cyclic growth shrinkage stability wave

Related quotes

Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. View quote
Jonathan Swift
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. View quote
John Tukey
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. View quote
Helen Keller
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. View quote
Eyvind Johnson