Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

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.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.