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"We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control."
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"My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately."
"There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing."
"The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper."
"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."
"The statists want to control the economy."
"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
"It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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