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Waldrop, Mitchell M. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The Science of Computing: Shaping a Discipline,
Adam Barr • The Problem With Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code (The MIT Press)
Is the cosmic compulsion for disorder matched by an equally powerful compulsion for order, structure, and organization?
Mitchell Waldrop • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
was the combination of that algorithm with other signals that created the mind-blowing results.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Ordering matter was the sole endeavor of Life, whether it was a jumble of self-replicating molecules in the primordial ocean, or a steam-powered English mill turning weeds into clothing, or Fiona lying in her bed turning air into Fiona.
Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
