Robert Axtell quotes

Robert Axtell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules”
-- Robert Axtell

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“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”
“A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.”
“The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”
“In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.”
“In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.”
“Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.”
“"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.”
“It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.”
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”

Source : Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall (1888). “The Economics of Industry”

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