Chaos is when any system is so complex and irregular that it appears to be random unless you know a lot of hidden information about it. Chaos is lovely, it is absolutely wonderful. It is full of all sorts of intriguing forms and behaviours.
Ian Stewart

Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute time and space; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability. [1]
[1]Quoted in James Gleick (1987) Chaos, Little, Brown, New York.

French mathematician Henri Poincaré wrote with great insight in 1908:
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and then we say that this effect is due to chance. [2]

Nothing fails like success.

Richard Pascale [1]

[1]Richard Pascale (1990) Managing on the Edge, Simon & Schuster, New York.

We are better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it will rain on Aunty's garden party three Sundays from now, because the problem turns out to be different ... It is the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

All aspects of business—all products, all activities, all methods—have an information structure at their core that has long been hidden, just like the genetic code of plants ... executives will have to create new genetic structures for their businesses.

Jay Walker, internet entrepreneur