Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole.

— Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Source: http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s00/p0000.html

Section 102.00 of Synergetics (1975).

Topics: software design, complexity