As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the “Loguidice Law”)

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you’re doing. It doesn’t know what you know.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]