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February 16, 2019

A life ruled by chaos is even more precarious. Every moment would be a moment of truth. Button your shirt starting from the top instead of the bottom, and there's no telling how differently things might turn out, years later. But to retain a measure of sanity, one has to believe that nearly all such decisions are inconsequential.



—Steven Strogatz
  American mathematician,writer, and teacher (b. 1959)


Source: Sync:How Order Emerges from Chaos (buy from Amazon)





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