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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."

"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"
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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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"

"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."

"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."

"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."
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