"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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Source : William Ross Ashby (1956). “An Introduction to Cybernetics. (1. Publ.)”

William Ross Ashby

#Goal Quotes #Important Quotes #Behaviour Quotes

“Arguments from authority carry little weight â€“ authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
“Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.”
“forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.”
“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.”
“The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.”
“Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.”
“The only greatness for man is immortality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.”

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