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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…
• The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its…
• For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.…
• You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
• Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not…
• Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
• Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

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