Optimization Toads

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round. - Douglas Hofstadter

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. - Ayn Rand