. It was released in 1977
and was the author's third book published by Arkham House
. It was published in an edition of 4,162 copies. Many of the stories are of the Cthulhu Mythos
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The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it.
The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.
Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive.
To err is human; to manage error is system.
A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.
A system is anything that talks to itself.
We can only get smart things from stupid things.
The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip.