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"Robust systems have a dynamic hierarchy of nested behaviors. How many moves ahead are you able to think when playing chess? How much effort are you willing to commit to understanding the deeply nuanced structure? Probably, success is not what you think it is. Adventures require novelty. Value has interesting surprises."
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"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."

"Just a single cord is enough to be tangled."

"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."

"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."

"Many books describe different problem solving techniques, but solving complicated problems in reality is not so easy."

"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

"People are too complicated to have simple labels."
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"We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy."

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here."

"The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason."

"Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions."
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