It’s a basic principle: Structure always affects function. The structure of social networks affects the spread of information and disease; the structure of the power grid affects the stability of power transmission. The same must be true for species in an ecosystem, companies in the global marketplace, cascades of enzyme reactions in living cells. The layout of the web must profoundly shape its dynamics.
— Strogatz, Steven. Sync. The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Londres: Penguin Books, 2003.
