Lewis D. Eigen Quotes

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

Traditional computing is always going to be a part of AMD's business, but our technology can go further.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

God didn't have time to create a nobody.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

I try to find meaning or value in most things and be as diverse as possible.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.