John Holland Quotes

#1. 'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.

John De Mol Jr.

#2. Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.

Brad Holland

#3. The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

John Holland Rose

#4. Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

John Henry Holland

#5. I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I'd do it. Love makes you stupid

Bruno Mars

#6. Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

John Henry Holland

#7. The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Plato

#8. To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

John Lothrop Motley

#9. Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

Carl Sandburg

#10. LINCKLAEN, JOHN. (Agent of the Holland Land Company.) Journals of Travels into Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont (1791-1792). Translated from French by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. With biographical sketch and notes. New York, Putnams: 1897.

Anonymous

#11. The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

John Henry Holland

#12. 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

#13. Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start.

John Henry Holland

#14. 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

#15. It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.

Jools Holland

#16. I'm a shareholder in three networks in Holland. That allows me to put ideas that we create in Holland on air in Holland, and if it works, then we distribute the show's format globally.

John De Mol Jr.

#17. It is love's soft breath on life's dark coals that briefly reds the fire.

John Holland

#18. Nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

John Henry Holland

#19. Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

John Lothrop Motley

#20. 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

#21. Chase? He actually said that to you?"
She frowned. "Yes."
"When?"
"When we were in bed."
"Great timing," Dee muttered. "Just like a man. We'll just file him away under D for dumb ass and move on. There are plenty of fish in the sea. Or better yet, S for sicko.

Lindsey Brookes

#22. 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

#23. Never let another man put fear in your heart.

Anthony Pettis

#24. Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.

John De Mol Jr.

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

John Henry Holland

#30. When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

John Henry Holland