Democracy is not a good by itself. It is completely dependent upon the nature of the people, both for its efficacy and for its survival. One can say that a “democratic” people, if placed under a dictatorship, would be more “democratically” ru...
The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks, and their pincers! Away with their artificia...
My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what...
Dr Ray Stantz: [telling Winston, who is new to the team on how to place ghosts in the storage facility] Now, this is where we store all the vapors, entities and slimers we've captured, it's simple really, you just unlock the system, insert the trap, ...
Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory s...
Rumack: Extremely serious. It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat. When the virus penetrates the red blood cells, the victim becomes dizzy, begins to experience an itchy rash, then the poison goes to work on the central nervous syste...
If you put it as 'complex nervous systems' it sounds pretty deflationary. What's so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you to do astrophysics… to write poetry... t...
My Opinion Is Just Opinion
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.
