The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

— David Roger, Psychobabble: Exploding the myths of the self-help generation

Source: http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2zsQeth9yRAC&pg=PT8

Quoted in Psychobabble.

Topics: complexity