Biological systems are dynamical, not easily predicted, and are creative in many ways... In the old equilibrium worldview, ideas about change were dominated by the action-reaction formula. It was a clockwork world, ultimately predictable in boring ways.

— Christopher Langton, Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (1990)

Source: http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/evolution-complexity.htm#_edn1

Cited in Sohail Inayatullah's 1994 'Evolution and Complexity'.

Topics: complexity