William Ross Ashby famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.
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A brain can improve till it fits its environment.
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When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
-- William Ross Ashby
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
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Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.
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