Art is a self-replicating force.

“In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the blueprints for…

— Max Tegmark

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So,…

— K. Eric Drexler

It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted…

— George Dyson

“let’s instead define life very broadly, simply as a process that can retain its complexity and replicate. What’s replicated isn’t matter (made of atoms)…

— Max Tegmark

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this…

— Neal Stephenson

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

— Anonymous

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep…

— Neal Stephenson

“We come off the assembly line with the bare essentials needed for existence in this plane and, if we are not ever vigilant, someone…

— Tyler Turnbull

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

— Ralph Merkle

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.

— Willam Belli

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and…

— David Draiman

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other…

— Neill Blomkamp

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart…

— David Baker

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

— John Cameron Mitchell