#distributed

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brain #comes #decision-making #discovered #distributed

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#distributed #intelligence #organization #point #ubiquitous

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries. ↗

— Hans Blix

#countries #distributed #even #television #use

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#around #conditions #days #distributed #example

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#common #common sense #desiring #distributed #each

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#common #common sense #distributed #fairly #more

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#amy #aware #budget #certain #community

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. ↗

— William Gibson

#already #arrived #distributed #evenly #future

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly