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

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.

The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.

An ecosystem is more like a conference than a community -- indefinite, pluralistic, tolerant, and in constant flux.