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The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running read more
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black read more
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour read more
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), read more
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
Science is nothing but perception.
Science is nothing but perception.
