"If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents."

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Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

John Henry Holland

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“The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.”
“On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”
“As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.”

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“In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side”
“Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.”
“The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.”
“More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.”
“A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.”

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