“Are we using digital computers to sequence, store, and better replicate our own genetic code, thereby optimizing human beings, or are digital… — George Dyson Computers Copy Share Image
It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it… — George Dyson Anything Copy Share Image
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably… — George Dyson Digital Copy Share Image
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things. — George Dyson Alone Copy Share Image
“There is reason to suspect that our predilection for linear codes, which have a simple, almost temporal sequence, is chiefly a literary… — George Dyson Habits Copy Share Image
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already.… — George Dyson Computers Copy Share Image
When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't… — George Dyson Any Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the… — George Dyson Computers Copy Share Image
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time.… — George Dyson Alive Copy Share Image
I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't… — George Dyson Account Copy Share Image
The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good. — George Dyson Generally Copy Share Image
History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your… — George Dyson Amateur Copy Share Image
“The obsidian flake and the silicon chip are struck by the light of the same campfire that has passed from hand to… — George Dyson Human mind Copy Share Image
“Web 2.0 is our code word for the analog increasingly supervening upon the digital—reversing how digital logic was embedded in analog components,… — George Dyson Programming Copy Share Image
I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes! — George Dyson Around Copy Share Image
“VON NEUMANN MADE a deal with “the other party” in 1946. The scientists would get the computers, and the military would get… — George Dyson Computers Copy Share Image
Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two… — George Dyson Bits Copy Share Image
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school. — George Dyson Adolescent Copy Share Image
“Almost every cost estimate made by a physicist is wildly wrong, and the better the physicist the worse it is (Herb York).” — George Dyson Copy Share Image
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a… — George Dyson Alan Copy Share Image
“Sixty-some years ago, biochemical organisms began to assemble digital computers. Now digital computers are beginning to assemble biochemical organisms. Viewed from a… — George Dyson Biology Copy Share Image
