George Dyson Quotes

#1. I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

Dakota Fanning

#2. I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

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#3. The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.

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#4. I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.

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#5. I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones.

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#6. In Korea we say that if a person cannot close his eyes in death, it is because he hasn't fulfilled something in this world.

Yeonmi Park

#7. Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.

Barry Moltz

#9. Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

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#10. Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.

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#11. When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.

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#12. If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

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#13. I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Whitley Strieber

#14. Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

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#15. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl

#16. And how exactly did you come by that murderous little item?
Ringil reached up and touched the pommel of the Ravensfriend, where it rose at his shoulder. 'It was forged for me at An-Monal by Grashgal the Wanderer.'
Yes - actually I was talking to the sword.

Richard Morgan

#17. History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.

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#18. I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

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#19. We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast.

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#20. The Sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well.

Munia Khan

#21. There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In this creation myth, computers arose from the mud, and code fell from the sky.

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#22. The voices started up again, but they couldn't stop her now. The waiting was over. There was no turning back, and that simple fact made it easier to go forward. The

V.E Schwab

#23. (known as the mesolimbic dopamine system)

David Eagleman

#24. Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

Savielly Tartakower

#25. The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

Cesare Lombroso

#26. 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 for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process.

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#27. Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits.

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