Tom, with whom I am sharing a room, is messy.

So, one of the criticisms of this kind of approach to organization is that, you know, Okay, well my real desk is really messy. I don't want that mess on my computer.

The prospect of a messy change of government, which is the first in the history of Malaysia, is making investors very nervous.

Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.

By refusing a planned and orderly restructuring, the eurozone is exposing itself to the risk of a messy default.

That could change in the event of a disorderly euro breakup, but, barring that outcome, there is reason to be more sanguine this time around.

This change of ruling houses was a messy and prolonged affair, and the Qing took almost twenty years to extend their control over the whole of China.

I mean, you'd think this is the result of some tabletop experiment, but this is the result of worldwide chaotic behavior countries accusing each other of dumping products, IPOs, bankruptcies, marketing programs.

The grotesque idea of embalming Chávez s body was finally discarded precisely because of the damage suffered by the corpse during its display to the masses in a chaotic exercise in political manipulation.

Finding out who is to blame becomes more and more like the late medieval and early modern search for witches a way of making sense of a disorderly and hostile universe.

First, Erdoğan s government recognized that change can deliver greater stability than inertia, which invariably breaks down chaotically as economic decline and political infighting take hold.

Avoiding a post exit implosion of the Greek banking system, however, might require temporary measures, such as bank holidays and capital controls, to prevent a disorderly run on deposits.

But New Deal economic policies, by expanding the role of the state in an often chaotic and unpredictable fashion, probably also played a role in at least temporarily impeding productivity growth.

We need their help to implement norms, principles, rules, and decision making procedures, thereby mitigating the endemic free rider problems in quasi anarchical international society.

If the euro breaks up in disarray, the common market and the EU will be destroyed, leaving Europe worse off than it was when the effort to unite it began, owing to a legacy of mutual mistrust and hostility.

It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide, chaotic, unpredictable activity of competition and the evolutionary process of technology is very predictable.

I want to show you the rest of this photograph, because this photograph is analogous to what we do to the word compassion in our culture we clean it up and we diminish its depths and its grounding in life, which is messy.

If this seemingly inexorable process is to be arrested and reversed, both Greece and the eurozone must urgently adopt a Plan B. A Greek default may be inevitable, but it need not be disorderly.

But if Greece is not solvent, either the EU must assume its debts or the risk will hang over it like a sword of Damocles. By refusing a planned and orderly restructuring, the eurozone is exposing itself to the risk of a messy default.

Everybody doing their thing makes a very chaotic environment, and if you can figure out how to work off each other if you can get a bunch of people who respect each other's work and play off each other, you might be able to create models for how to build sections of the city without resorting to the one architect.

Nobody is in control.

But on the middle board of economic relations, the world is already multipolar, and the US cannot obtain the outcomes it wants without the cooperation of Europe, Japan, China, and others. And, on the bottom board of transnational issues outside the control of governments including everything from climate change to pandemics to transnational terrorism power is chaotically distributed, and it makes no sense at all to claim American hegemony.