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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing."
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"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
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"In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test."
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"Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded."
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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."
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"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
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"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
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"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
Design
"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far."
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"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it."
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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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