Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

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

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

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

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.