Ross Ashby Quotes

#1. When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.

John Marshall

#2. Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

Joseph Prince

#3. My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.

Barack Obama

#4. Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Robin G. Collingwood

#5. 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 Ashby

#6. Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view.

Richard Engel

#7. A brain can improve till it fits its environment.

William Ross Ashby

#8. Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

John G. Miller

#9. Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

Shirley Maclaine

#10. I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

Mark Zuckerberg

#11. The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

Peter Alliss