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Urbanization is the advent of edge species.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
There's nothing more addictive than being a god.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
As life evolves it unbinds from the inorganic and interacts more with the organic.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Life-as-it-could-be is a territory we can only study by first creating it.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The great irony of god games is that letting go is the only way to win.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
What little time left is in this century is rehearsal time for the chief psychological chore of the 21st century: letting go, with dignity.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The genes harbor their own wisdom and their own inertia.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
In turbulence is the preservation of the world.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
To err is human; to manage error is system.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
Inconsistency is an inevitable trait of any self-sustaining system built up out of consistent parts.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)