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Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.
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It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The
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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
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Thinking generates entropy.")
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
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Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.
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So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.
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a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
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We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
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But information is physical.
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To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.
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The universe computes its own destiny.
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Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.
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The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
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The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.
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A bit, fundamentally, is always a coin toss.
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Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
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Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense,
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I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.
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The universe is computing its own destiny.
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Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
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The telegraphic style banishes all the forms of politeness,
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At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
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Grand - "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" - and
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We choose mania over boredom every time.
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We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
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It is fitting that history attached Morse's name to his code, more than to his device.
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When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.
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Incompleteness was real. It meant that mathematics could never be proved free of self-contradiction.
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I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
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The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
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Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
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Running for president is the new selfie.
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.
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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
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Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.
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Human computers had no future, he saw:
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Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
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Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. - David L. Watson
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Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
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In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.
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Genes themselves are made of bits.
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
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First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases.
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For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same.
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I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
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The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong
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Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.
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He was going to show that the paradoxes were not excrescences; they were fundamental.
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I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.
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So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.
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Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
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Bits in the ether.
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What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik
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We will have learned to understand and express all of physics in the language of information.
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The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.
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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 itself.
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He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.
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information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself.
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I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman
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When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?
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IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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