Looking for a source.

[Diakaryu]

A friend of mine said this to me a long time ago and it just stuck with me.

I don't recall if he said he made it up or if he was quoting somebody else so I figured this would be a good place to stop and ask.

"As the level of complexity reaches infinity, the time between breakdowns reach's zero"

Sounds fancy enough to have been uttered by a great mind if so any clue who?

B.

 

[This Guy]

A friend of mine said this to me a long time ago and it just stuck with me.

I don't recall if he said he made it up or if he was quoting somebody else so I figured this would be a good place to stop and ask.

"As the level of complexity reaches infinity, the time between breakdowns reach's zero"

Sounds fancy enough to have been uttered by a great mind if so any clue who?

B.

Found this -

A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Here -

http://roso.epfl.ch/dm/murphy.html#laws

Not the same quote, but same idea. Anyway, that's all I have

 

[CaveDave]

A friend of mine said this to me a long time ago and it just stuck with me.

I don't recall if he said he made it up or if he was quoting somebody else so I figured this would be a good place to stop and ask.

"As the level of complexity reaches infinity, the time between breakdowns reach's zero"

Sounds fancy enough to have been uttered by a great mind if so any clue who?

B.

Fits reality.

If you accept that any one component part will have a finite mean-time-to-failure, then make an infinite number of those all interdependent, the MTTF should approach nil.

Infant mortality and the "bathtub curve" would seem to gaurantee it.

Just my take on it.

Cheers,
Dave