"I dropped by to visit a software engineer who was working closely with one of the molecular biologists from the Biologic Institute...the software engineer had been studying how the cell processes information in order to write a computer simulation of gene expression...My colleague told me that he recognized many of these specific design patterns and stratagies at work in the cell.
He expresesd his awe at the "sophistication of it design logic" and its resemblance to that used in the software industry. He said the cell often employs a functional logic that mirrors our own, but exceeds it in the elegance of its execution.
"It's like we are looking at 8.0 or 9.0 versions of design stratagies that we have just begun to implement. When I see how the cell processes information," he said, "it gives me an eerie feeling that someone else figured this out before we got here."
Signature in the Cell
By Stephen Meyer
page 369
Note: Almost finished with the book. Only two more chapters, epilouge, and two appendices to go.
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