Feedback Loops Quotes

#1. When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.

Martin Jacques

#2. Consciousness is the process of creating a model of the world using multiple feedback loops in various parameters (e.g., in temperature, space, time, and in relation to others), in order to accomplish a goal (e.g., find mates, food, shelter). I call this the "space-time theory of consciousness,

Michio Kaku

#3. The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

David Rose

#4. The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

Alex Shoumatoff

#5. Consciousness amplifies the weak signals that, like cobwebs spun between trees, web Narratives together. Moreover, it amplifies them selectively and in that way creates feedback loops that steer the Narratives.

Neal Stephenson

#6. The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

Fritjof Capra

#7. The world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

Tim Harford

#9. By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

Jason Silva

#10. You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated.
If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

George Watsky

#11. Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Timothy Noah

#12. I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.

Per Petterson

#13. Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force; and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!

Dick Morris

#15. There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Jim McDermott

#16. There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.

Barbara Sher

#17. I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#18. Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#19. We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Anthony Burgess

#20. Maybe people could fall in love without an identity crisis.

Leah Raeder

#21. It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Paton