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    Seth Lloyd
    “The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of the continued information processing that makes up the dynamical evolution of the universe.”
    ― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments
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    Aravind Adiga
    “Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion.
    These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.”
    ― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
    tags: devotion, freedom, hanuman, india, servants, serving
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “A computer program can modify itself but it cannot violate its own instructions — it can at best change some parts of itself by *obeying* its own instructions.”
    ― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    tags: computer, program, self-modification
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”
    ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    tags: gödel, gödel-s-incompleteness-theorem, mat, mathematics, proof, truth
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “I wish my wish would not be granted!”
    ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    tags: metawish, self-referential, strange-loop
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “A mirror mirroring a mirror”
    ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
    tags: mirror, self-referential, strange-loop
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    David Deutsch
    “This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusions.”
    ― David Deutsch
    tags: induction, paradox, self-reference, strange-loop
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    David Deutsch
    “The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.”
    ― David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
    tags: science, scientific-method
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    David Deutsch
    “All fiction that does not violate the laws of physics is fact.”
    ― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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    David Deutsch
    “Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.”
    ― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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    David Deutsch
    “Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.’ By”
    ― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger
    tags: consciousness, matter, physics, science
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “The present is the only things that has no end.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    tags: contradiction
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”
    ― Erwin Schrodinger
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “LIVING MATTER EVADES THE DECAY TO EQUILIBRIUM”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?
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    “Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
    ― Michael Crichton, The Lost World
    tags: proof
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    David Deutsch
    “Because we are universal explainers, we are not simply obeying our genes. For”
    ― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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    David Deutsch
    “the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
    ― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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    David Deutsch
    “The most general way of stating the central assertion of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is that a population of replicators subject to variation (for instance by imperfect copying) will be taken over by those variants that are better than their rivals at causing themselves to be replicated. This”
    ― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of ‘equilibrium’ that an organism appears so enigmatic;”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?
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    Alan M. Turing
    “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
    ― Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
    tags: distance, future, inspirational, progress, science, vision, work
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    Alan M. Turing
    “Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.”
    ― Alan Turing
    tags: computers
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    Alan M. Turing
    “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
    ― Alan Turing
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    Alan M. Turing
    “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.”
    ― Alan Turing
    tags: breakthrough, computer-science, science
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    John von Neumann
    “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
    ― John von Neumann
    tags: life, math, maths
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    John von Neumann
    “Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
    ― John von Neumann
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    John von Neumann
    “Can we survive technology?”
    ― John von Neumann
    tags: engineering, physics, science, technology
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