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Category Archive: George Dyson

George Dyson Quote: “I read the Drudge Report! And…”

I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

August 15, 2021 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “Wherever you grow up, you think…”

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

July 8, 2021 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “I don’t know a single person…”

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.

May 1, 2021 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “Alan Turing gave us a mathematical…”

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.

February 14, 2021 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “History is one of the only…”

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.

January 2, 2021 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “We could construct a machine that…”

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.

December 2, 2020 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “I have had a Twitter account…”

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.

December 1, 2020 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “Last time I checked, the digital…”

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.

June 20, 2020 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “When you click on a link…”

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.

June 9, 2020 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

George Dyson Quote: “It doesn’t cost anything to replicate…”

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.

May 18, 2020 1953, American, George Dyson, Quotes by Historians

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