> Nature is lazy before it's intelligent. At every turn, it would rather reuse a system designed for a completely different purpose than design something new fr

> Nature is lazy before it's intelligent. At every turn, it would rather reuse a system designed for a completely different purpose than design something new from the ground up. So we can blame all the crazy things we do with computers and software on nature? ;-) But seriously, that is a great insight. Both where evolution is concerned, and software development. (And other branches of engineering, too, I bet.)