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Of course, one can argue that words like ``chaos'' and ``energy'' antedate their use as technical terms, but it is the technical meanings that are being distorted in the process of vulgarization, not the original senses of the words.
...Still, the presence of the word [complex] implies the belief that any such system [complex adaptive system] possesses at least a certain minimum level of complexity, suitably defined.
Simplicity refers to the absence (or near-absence) of complexity. Whereas the former word is derived from an expression meaning ``once folded'', the latter comes from an expression meaning ``braided together''. (Note that both ``plic-'' for fold and ``plex-'' for braid come from the same Indo-European root ``plek''.

-- Murray Gell-Mann, from The Quark and the Jaguar