“I think there’s a personality that goes with this kind of thing,” Arthur says. “It’s people who like process and pattern, as opposed to people who are comfortable with stasis and order. I know that every time in my life that I’ve run across simple rules giving rise to emergent, complex messiness, I’ve just said, ‘Ah, isn’t that lovely!’ And I think that sometimes, when other people run across it, they recoil.”
