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"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."
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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

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"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."

"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

"I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it."

"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
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