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"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process."
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"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."
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"In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program."
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"Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information."
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"At some point, Moore's law will break down."
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"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
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"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."
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"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
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"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is."
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"According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here."
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