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We should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and bring it also under its reign of constant evolution.

Communication – which in the end is what the digital technology and media are all about – is not just a sector of the economy. Communication IS the economy.

Telling the future is what organisms are for.

We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting 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.

The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it.

A mind cannot possibly consider anything beyond what it can measure or calculate; without a body it can only consider itself. Without the interruptions of hellos from the eye, ear, tongue, nose, and finger, the evolving mind huddles in the corner picking its navel.

Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.

Any highly evolved form is beautiful.

A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.

"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy.

The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win.