“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.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“Moore’s law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.”
― Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
― Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
“All fiction that does not violate the laws of physics is fact.”
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
― The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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