The solutions of engineers are often much alike, because human brains are much alike. Everything we think can in principle be though by someone else. The real ideas, as evolution shows, come about by chance. Reality is very creative. Maybe that is why the Strandbeests apear to be alive, and charm us. The Strandbeests themselves have let me make them.
Theo Jancen, From "The march of the Strandbeests", The New yorker, 5 sept 2011