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" More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work. "

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" Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. "

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" People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers. "

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" Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing. "

" People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them. "

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" I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future. "

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" I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world. "

" We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too. "

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" Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. "

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" If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.' "

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