Top 25 John Henry Holland Quotes
#1. Nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.
John Henry Holland
#2. The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.
Dan Kimball
#3. I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst the Trial
Oscar Wilde
#4. Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.
John Henry Holland
#6. Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
Khaled Hosseini
#7. God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh
#8. I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.
Pete Way
#9. The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.
John Henry Holland
#10. If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.
John Henry Holland
#11. Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start.
John Henry Holland
#12. The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.
John Henry Holland
#14. A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.
Joshua Ferris
#15. If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.
John Henry Holland
#16. Horse: What do you think? Gotta go, church in a few
Me: Church?!?? Didn't peg you for a church kind of guy
Horse: What we call a club meeting. I try to stay away from collection plates
Me: Don't get holy water in your beer!
Joanna Wylde
#17. Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
Jackie Chan
#18. The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.
John Henry Holland
#19. That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
Lloyd Kaufman
#20. Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.
John Henry Holland
#21. Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.
John Henry Holland
#22. From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.
John Henry Holland
#23. With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.
John Henry Holland
#24. This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.
John Henry Holland
#25. When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.
John Henry Holland
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