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"When software systems become so intractable that they can no longer be controlled, swarm intelligence offers an alternative way of designing an ‘intelligent’ systems, in which autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning replace control, preprogramming, and centralization." – Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, Guy Theraulaz, Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems, Oxford University Press, (1999), p. xi
"For naught so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give." – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene iii.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that…
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