Modes of Behavior
These simple rules lead to complex behavior.
Everybody, mathematician or not, spots three modes of behavior, starting on a completely white grid.
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Famous quotes containing the words modes of, modes and/or behavior:
“Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The confusion of emotions with behavior causes no end of unnecessary trouble to both adults and children. Behavior can be commanded; emotions can’t. An adult can put controls on a child’s behavior—at least part of the time—but how do you put controls on what a child feels? An adult can impose controls on his own behavior—if he’s grown up—but how does he order what he feels?”
—Leontine Young (20th century)