"Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work."

"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 c…"

"To err is human; to manage error is system."

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

"The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to…"

"A system is anything that talks to itself."

"We can only get smart things from stupid things."

"The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost. Like the transient form of a whirlpool held upright by a million spinning atoms o…"

"A mind cannot possibly consider anything beyond what it can measure or calculate; without a body it can only consider…"

"The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything."