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"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."


"Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information."


"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."


"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops."


"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."


"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."


"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."


"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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