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Quotes from Christopher Langton in: Roger Lewin — Christopher Langton

born 1948

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A system in which a few things interacting produce tremendously divergent behavior; deterministic chaos; it looks random but its not.

Christopher Langton in: Roger Lewin (1990)

You can see these two species coexisting in a long period of stability; then on of the them drops out and all hell breaks loose. Tremendous instability. That's the Soviet Union.

Christopher Langton in: Roger Lewin (1990)

Biological systems are dynamical, not easily predicted, and are creative in many ways... In the old equilibrium worldview, ideas about change were dominated by the action-reaction formula. It was a clockwork world, ultimately predictable in boring ways.

Christopher Langton in: Roger Lewin (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Langton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.