
“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
“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
“Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.”
Lines by a Clerk; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“State of the Art” (p. 112)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
“Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”
“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”
XIII. A Guide to Boring
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)