# Quote — Kevin Kelly, Out Of Control

> 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.

- Author: [Kevin Kelly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly.md)
- Book: [Out Of Control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#Out_of_Control:_The_New_Biology_of_Machines,_Social_Systems_and_the_Economic_World_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/it-is-the

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> The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

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> Life is the strange loop of a snake releasing itself from its own grip, unmouthing an ever fattening tail tapering up to an ever increasingly large mouth, birthing an ever larger tail, filling the universe with this strangeness.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/life-is-the.md)

> The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.

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