# The Architecture Of Complexity — Herbert A. Simon

<http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs146a/handouts/papers/simon-complexity.pdf>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Thus, the central theme that runs through my remarks is that complexity frequently takes the form of hierarchy, and that hierarchic systems have some common properties that are independ- ent of their specific content. Hierarchy, I shall argue, is one of the central structural schemes that the architect of complexity uses.

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