# Quote — Kevin Kelly, Out Of Control

> The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms of water, it can be scattered with a fingertip.

- 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/the-i-of-a-vivisystem

## More from this book

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

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

> 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.

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