James Gleick

Each new information technology, in its own time, set off blooms in storage and transmission.

Lorenz saw that there must be a link between the unwillingness of the weather to repeat itself and the inability of forecasters to predict it—a link between aperiodicity and unpredictability.

WHERE CHAOS BEGINS, classical science stops

you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists

any physical system that behaved nonperiodically would be unpredictable

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere

Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science

A chaotic system could be stable if its particular brand of irregularity persisted in the face of small disturbances.

It was locally unpredictable, globally stable

If the repeating behavior is stable, as in a pendulum clock, then the system returns to this orbit after small perturbations