Manuel De Landa Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. 1952
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.
source: Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)
topic: Decision, Information, Events, Optimal, Information Processing
