The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
You can't rush an art form.
Stage performing is a dying art form.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Headline writing is an art form.
Puns are the highest form of literature.
repooping is the purest form of pooping
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
Always tell the truth in the form of a joke.
Japanimation is a whole different art form.
Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
