Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.