Verbatim » complexity http://shanta.edublogs.org a commonplace blog of quotations about learning and learning design Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 a mess http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/26/a-mess/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/26/a-mess/#comments Fri, 26 May 2006 19:22:09 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/26/a-mess/ We have also come to realize that no problem ever exists in complete isolation. Every problem interacts with aother problems and is, therefore, part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…Furthermore, solutions to most problems produce other problems…English does not contained a suitable word for ’systems of problems’. Therefore, I have had to coin one. I choose to call such a system a ‘mess’.

Russell Ackoff, Redesigning the Future, 1974.

]]> http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/05/26/a-mess/feed/ 0 the art of prophesy http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/ http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:18:58 +0000 Shanta Rohse http://shanta.edublogs.org/2006/01/05/the-art-of-prophesy/ The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Often misattributed to Mark Twain.

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Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988.

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