Autonomous system may refer to:
- Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks and routers under the control of one entity
- Autonomous system (mathematics), a system of ordinary differential equations which does not depend on the independent variable
- Autonomous robot, robots which can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance
Famous quotes containing the words autonomous and/or system:
“There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)