It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of… — Kevin Kelly
It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting.
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