"There is no such thing as chaos, it tacitly asserts, in the sidereal world or outside of it. For chaos is the negation of law, and law is the expression of the will of God." (Agnes M Clerke, "Problems in Astrophysics", 1903)
"Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts." (Harlow Shapley, "Of Stars and Men", 1958)
"To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being." (James Gleick, "Chaos: Making a New Science", 1987)
"Chaos is therefore order (a pattern) within disorder (random behaviour)." (Ralph D Stacey, "The Chaos Frontier: Creative Strategic Control for Business", 1991)
"Chaos is a peculiar situation in which the trajectories of a system, taken in the traditional sense, fail to converge as they approach their limit cycles or 'attractors' or 'equilibria'. Instead, they diverge, due to an increase, of indefinite magnitude, in amplification or gain." (Gordon Pask, "Different Kinds of Cybernetics", 1992)
"In its essence, chaos is an irregular oscillatory process. [...] chaos is a subset of the more general classification of oscillatory dynamics [...]" (Courtney Brown, "Chaos and Catastrophe Theories", 1995)
"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized." (Chuck Palahniuk, "Survivor", 1999)
"Chaos is not pure disorder, it carries within itself the indistinctness between the potentialities of order, of disorder, and of organization from which a cosmos will be born, which is an ordered universe." (Edgar Morin, "Restricted Complexity, General Complexity" [in (Carlos Gershenson et al [Eds.], "Worldviews, Science and Us: Philosophy and Complexity", 2007)])
"Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want." (Rick Riordan, "The Throne of Fire", 2011)
"In essence, chaos is a phase transition that gives spontaneous energy the means to achieve repetitive and structural order." (Lawrence K Samuels, "Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action", 2013)
"After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the process that establishes those patterns." (Lawrence K Samuels, "Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty", 2015)
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