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"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."
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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."
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"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
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"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer."
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"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
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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."
Society
"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."
Time
"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."
Science
"In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program."
Hope
"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics."
Life
"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."
Time
"At some point, Moore's law will break down."
Law
"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
Computer
"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."
Information
"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."
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