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“In natural science, Nature has given us a world and we’re just to discover its laws. In computers, we can stuff laws into it and create a world.”
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“Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.”
― Permutation City
― Permutation City
“We are now in a position to turn to problems of the definition of mathematics. The definition I advocate is briefly this: Mathematics is the science of formal systems.”
― Outlines of a formalist philosophy of mathematics
― Outlines of a formalist philosophy of mathematics
“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.”
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“My main purpose in life is to do something useful for my fellow men, not to live my life in vain, to propel mankind forward, if only by a fraction. That is why I became interested in that which gave me neither bread nor power, but I am in hopes that my work, perhaps soon, perhaps only in the distant future, will yield society heaps of grain and vast power.”
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