Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
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“We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.”
Article in Nature, 1931, vol 128, page 704
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