William Ross Ashby quotes
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“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.”
-- William Ross AshbySource : William Ross Ashby (1956). “An Introduction to Cybernetics. (1. Publ.)”
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“A brain can improve till it fits its environment.”
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“When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.”
-- William Ross Ashby
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“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
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“I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.”
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Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 3, 2016.
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“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”
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