Author of quotes: Ilya Prigogine

If you take a steady pendulum and shake it, the further course of events can be predicted unambiguously: the goods back to the state with the least hesitation, that is, to the rest. If the cargo is at the top, it is in principle impossible to predict, he will fall to the right or left. So in one case, the situation is in principle predictable, but not in another, and in this paragraph in full growth raises the problem of determinism. For small oscillations the pendulum is a deterministic object, and we know exactly what needs to happen. On the contrary, the problems associated with the pendulum upside down on the head, contain views about non-deterministic object.