Action Quote by John Henry Holland

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual…

— John Henry Holland

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

— John Henry Holland

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

— Ovid

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by…

— Ellen MacArthur

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing…

— Deepak Chopra

Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic…

— Robert Aumann

A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules

— Robert Axtell

“In his excellent book Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams (1997), Mitchel Resnick outlines a list of five heuristics associated with the aggregation of interactions:…

— Rich Jolly

...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each…

— Rene Dubos

I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as I say…

— Wangari Maathai

“As Adam Smith argued more than two centuries ago, when individuals freely pursue their own self-interests—presumably, even their most trivial desires—the aggregate effect is…

— Paul Roberts

When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.

— Peter Drucker