The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.
It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.
The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
Some things weren't designed to understand.
