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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."

Change

"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time."

Time

"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."

Work

"The organization and the environment are in concert."

Environment

"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."

Environment

"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."

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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."

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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."

Computer

"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."

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"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."

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