"This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems."

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

John Henry Holland

#Block Quotes #Use Quotes #Building Quotes

“My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.”
“Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.”
“The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.”
“The deliberative sense of the community should govern.”
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”

Source : Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.144, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press
“At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.”

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