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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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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."

"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."

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

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

"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field."

"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."


"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."


"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about."
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