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Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

John Henry Holland

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John Henry Holland
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: February 2
Died: 2015
Died: August 9
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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Fort Wayne
Indiana
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