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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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"You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it."

"I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat."

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

"Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."


"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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