“Even though something like Danny Hillis' "connection machine" is big, it's nothing compared with Avogadro's number of processors that nature has at her disposal.”

— J. Doyne Farmer

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

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American physicist and entrepreneur (b.1952) 1952

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