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“The beauty in the laws of physics is their fantastic simplicity. What is the ultimate mathematical machinery behind it all? That must surely be the most beautiful of all.”
“Although English merchants had been widely prevented from trading in Spanish-controlled ports in Latin America”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“the phenomenon known as entanglement. When particles or quantum systems are entangled, their properties remain correlated across vast distances and vast times. Light-years apart, they share something that is physical, yet not only physical. Spooky paradoxes arise, unresolvable until one understands how entanglement encodes information, measured in bits or their drolly named quantum counterpart, qubits.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“The alphabet was a founding technology of information.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“The laws of physics are the algorithms. Every burning star, every silent nebula, every particle leaving its ghostly trace in a cloud chamber is an information processor. The universe computes its own destiny.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“It connotes a cosmic principle of organization and order, and it provides an exact measure of that.” The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator—an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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