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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.…
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You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
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Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not…
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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
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The universe is computing its own destiny.
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It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly…
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Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
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The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of…
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that…
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would…
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of…
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We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium…
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With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives…
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