L. K. Samuels Quote

If an emerging system is born complex, there is neither leeway to abandon it when it fails, nor the means to join another, successful one. Such a system would be caught in an immovable grip, congested at the top, and prevented, by a set of confusing but locked–in precepts, from changing.

p. 191 - In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, 2013