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Engineers often have a particular mindset. The Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly principled man. But above all else he was a curiosity-driven problem solver.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
[on Wilczek's current project]: weaving together threads from across the frontiers of knowledge, optimistically pushing ever deeper, never satisfied with an incomplete understanding of the universe and all the potential it holds for us. And having a great time doing it.
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
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lisa • 9 cards
“It was science fiction more than computer science,”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
That two symbols were sufficient for encoding all communication had been established by Francis Bacon in 1623.