"Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested."

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

John Henry Holland

#Data Quotes #Principles Quotes #Looking Forward Quotes

“For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61
“A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.”
“Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.38, Pan Macmillan
“One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.”
“You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.”
“I almost always write everything the way it comes out, except I tend much more to take things out rather than put things in. It's out of a desire to really show what's going on at all times, how things smell and look, as well as from the knowledge that I don't want to push things too quickly through to climax; if I do, it won't mean anything. Everything has to be earned, and it takes a lot of work to earn.”
“My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.”

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