Linus Torvalds on natural selection and design

Linus Torvalds on natural selection and design:

And think about how you and me actually came about - not through any complex design. Right. “sheer luck”. Well, sheer luck, AND: 1.) free availability and _crosspollination_ through sharing of “source code”, although biologists call it DNA. 2.) a rather unforgiving user environment, that happily replaces bad versions of us with better working versions and thus culls the herd (biologists often call this “survival of the fittest”) 3.) massive undirected parallel development (”trial and error”)….don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit.