Autopoietic Quotes & Sayings

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success — Stephen King

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity. — John Green

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. — Jonathan Carroll

Then she rooted around until she found the bathroom medicine cabinet. It used to contain a bottle of aspirin. Now it contained her scream from the time she was bitten by a llama at a roadside petting zoo in Manitoba. — Ian Tregillis

My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen. — Richard P. Feynman

called out to her. The sudden noise made Natalie jump, but as she turned, she recognised the face of the man behind the open window. — Stephen Edger

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. — Janine Di Giovanni

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country. — Zephyr Teachout

I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I learned guitar solely for the purpose of meeting women. I'd heard it's a great lady-catcher. — Tony Revolori

There's ways you move and speak that in a hundred years I wouldn't forget. — Keiko

To hell with safety. All I want to do is race. — James Hunt

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger. — Smiley Blanton

Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution. — John Henry Holland

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. — PZ Myers