“The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
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Famous Carlos Gershenson Quotes
“Before being humans, we are animals.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 26 (also on p. 4)
“Everything can be seen as a system because there is nothing you cannot .”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 29
“Just because it has always been that way does not mean that it will always be so.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 25
Carlos Gershenson Quotes about life
Carlos Gershenson Quotes
“If only cars were fueled by road rage…”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 60
“All human relationships are based on misunderstandings.”
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 102
“The more I know, the better I realize how little we know.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“The only impossible thing is something to be impossible.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 93
“Science, as an institution, cannot be independent of human passions.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“You shouldn't compete against others. You should compete against yourself.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“Nothing is free of its own limits.”
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 38
“Finding your path is part of your path.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 5
“Knowledge brings more questions than answers”
Quote in: Carlos Gershenson (2007) Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. p. 144
However Eduardo Gianetti (2001) Lies We Live By: The Art of Self Deception p. 136 stated:
Laplace's omniscient intelligence transcends the human condition and, what's more serious, seems to get ever more and more out of reach, as the advance of scientific knowledge brings more questions than answers.
Misattributed
Variant: Knowledge brings more questions than answers
“Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it.”
Source: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 133
Chorninky Notes (January 2010 - )
“Every joy brings the sorrow of its absence in its wake.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“When I am a part of the herd I cannot see the stampede.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“Who is stronger: the one who gives the blow, or the one who endures it?”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 94
“How can we ask ourselves how can we ask ourselves?”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 18
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 19
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“There is no game in which you cannot cheat.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“Science deals with epistemology, not with ontology.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“The easiest way to cope with complexity is not having it.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“People fear/hate other nations only when they don't know them.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“All ideas are valid in the context they were created.”
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 86
