“Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.”
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 79
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Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 239; this may be derived from a similar observation by Harlan Ellison which is sometimes misattributed to Zappa: "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
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"Theodore Zeldin - historian, philosopher" in History Today (July 1999)
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Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 62
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From the Opening Address to the Folketing (The Danish Parliament) on Tuesday 6 October 2009.
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