So that's it.

[glengara]

*Chaos theory contends that complex and unpredictable results will occur in systems that are sensitive to small changes in their initial conditions.*

Sound familiar?

[jim_w]

Motorola, GE, and people with Ph.D.’s have shown this to be true actually because you cannot test quality into anything. It MUST be designed in. So if there is a poor design and you change even something very small that you do not think will affect something else, it can. I think they came up a number like 5% on average, but don’t quote me on that. I would have to go and look it up, again.

[lawman]

A farmer, an architect, and and economist were arguing about whose profession was oldest.

The farmer pointed out that, in the beginning, farming was the occupation of those expelled from the Garden of Eden.

The architect then pointed out that before there was any farming, the Master Architect brought order from chaos and formed the heavens and the earth.

The farmer nodded and both looked at the economist who said "who do you think created the chaos?"