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.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.