“Perfect order is boring, perfect randomness is boring, but complex systems are interesting.”
Source: The Other Side Of The Coin (2008), Chapter 4, Right Versus Left, p. 131
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
David Orrell 26
Canadian mathematician 1962Related quotes
“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”

25 January 1857 (p. 346)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)

This statement has been attributed to John A. Locke, but John Locke did not have a middle name. The words "dynamic," "boring" and "repetitive," found in this quote, were not yet in use in Locke's time. (See The Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/abbr.php.) John A. Locke is listed on one site as having lived from 1899 to 1961; no more information about him was available.
Misattributed

Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)

“Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.”

“You can't be boring. Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.”
Obituary in New York Times