Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.