"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."

Control, Complexity, Universe

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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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"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."

George Orwell, British Author

Control, Fanaticism, Power, Propaganda

"Through all life changes , God is in control."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Control, Life, Change, God

"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Control, Truth, Power, Sex, Work

"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Control, Flesh, Prompting, Obedience

"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Control, Calm, Desperation, Silence, Words

"Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Control, Chaos, Truth, Power

"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Control, Power, Style, Emotions

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Control, Self, Soul, Knowledge

"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Control, Perception, Emotion, Mind

"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Control, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

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"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."

Energy, Memory, Space

"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."

Society, Computers, Information

"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."

Control, Complexity, Universe

"Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial."

Computer, Thinking, Universe

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

Science, Knowledge

"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."

Society, Science, England, Information

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

Famous,

"Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex."

Universe,

"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."

Thought, Information, Will, Wishes

"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."

Computer, Universe