"The universe is computing its own destiny." — James Gleick
"The universe is computing its own destiny."
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James Gleick
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70 Quotes by James Gleick
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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must…
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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…
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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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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…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is…
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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…
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Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the…
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great…
— Benjamin Peirce
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now…
— Douglas Engelbart
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
— Alan Perlis
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Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men,…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of…
— Robert S. Mulliken
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we…
— Unknown Author
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s…
— Unknown Author
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In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have…
— Jeff Pulver
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Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing,
— Unknown Author
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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The…
— Deepak Chopra
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information…
— Walter Jon Williams
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