The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldnt necessarily be good.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.