Robert Venturi Quotes

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

You're an entropic chaos factor

This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.