Principle of Emergent Behavior
Basis of the Internet

Our natural inclination when we see a problem, especially an organizational or management problem, is to say, How can we solve that problem by putting somebody in charge of it?

In principle in every case, and in practice in more cases than we suspect, anything that can be coordinated in a hierarchical way can also be coordinated in a nonhierarchical or emergent way.

- Interview with Petrie