Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Simple, Complicated, Complex , Chaotic

What's the difference between complex and complicated?

Not knowing this difference means you might apply exactly the wrong approach to the right problem. (Or, if you prefer, the right approach to the wrong problem.)

It's a simple message, really. But if you don't get it, you're headed for chaos.

Simple = easily knowable.

Complicated = not simple, but still knowable.

Complex = not fully knowable, but reasonably predictable.

Chaotic = neither knowable nor predictable.





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