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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.
~ George Dyson
Alan
Clear
Computing
Description
Digital
Gave
He
Mathematical
Model
Prophetic
Test
Time
Truly
Us
Very
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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.
~ George Dyson
Alive
Any
Binary
Bits
Book
Code
Codes
Digital
Evolve
More
Necessarily
Organisms
Over
Phone
Replicate
Strings
Than
Time
While
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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.
~ George Dyson
Amateur
Contributions
Credentials
Document
Fields
Follow
History
Only
Providing
Rules
Seriously
Sources
Taken
Where
Write
You
Your
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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.
~ George Dyson
Digital
Electricity
Even
Immersed
Know
People
Person
Single
Single Person
Site
Somewhere
Strongly
Universe
View
Web
Web Site
Who
Without
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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.
~ George Dyson
Account
Anyone
Anything
Beginning
Followed
Had
Never
Since
Twitter
Used
Very
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I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!
~ George Dyson
Around
Facebook
Read
Report
Sometimes
Wander
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I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.
~ George Dyson
Adolescent
Everyone
Hated
High
High School
Rebellious
School
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If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
~ George Dyson
Alone
Get
Living
Spend
Things
Time
Very
Wilderness
You
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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.
~ George Dyson
Anything
Because
Built
Code
Companies
Cost
Done
Free
Granted
Make
Now
Process
Replicate
Somebody
Take
Well
Why
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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.
~ George Dyson
Bits
Checked
Digital
Expanding
Five
Last
Last Time
Per
Processing
Rate
Second
Side
Storage
Time
Trillion
Two
Universe
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The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
~ George Dyson
Generally
Good
Information
Public
Public Good
Unlimited
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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.
~ George Dyson
Construct
Could
Fast
Google
Intelligent
Kind
Machine
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Possible
Scales
Than
Thing
Understand
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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.
~ George Dyson
Any
Click
Code
Know
Leads
Life
Link
Links
More
Sometimes
String
Than
You
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Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.
~ George Dyson
Grow
Grow Up
Normal
Think
Up
Wherever
You
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