Well, what does this all of this mean?



Robustness  v. Complexity 

See "Complexity and Robustness", J.M Carlson and John Doyle, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 99, Suppl. 1, 2538-2545, February 19, 2002. 
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.012582499 for a nice introduction.