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Top 25 M. Mitchell Waldrop Quotes (2025 Update)

M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Everything affects everything else, and you have to understand that whole web of connections.”

1. “Everything affects everything else, and you have to understand that whole web of connections.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Hopper would later gain fame both as a teacher and as a pioneer in the development of high-level programming languages. Yet perhaps her best-known contribution came in the summer of 1945, when she and her colleagues were tracking down a glitch in the Mark II and discovered a large moth that had gotten crushed by one of the relay switches and shorted it out. She taped the dead moth into the logbook with the notation “First case of an actual bug being found.”

2. “Hopper would later gain fame both as a teacher and as a pioneer in the development of high-level programming languages. Yet perhaps her best-known contribution came in the summer of 1945, when she and her colleagues were tracking down a glitch in the Mark II and discovered a large moth that had gotten crushed by one of the relay switches and shorted it out. She taped the dead moth into the logbook with the notation “First case of an actual bug being found.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.”

3. “Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “In non linear systems-and the economy is most certainly nonlinear-chaos theory tells you that the slightest uncertainty in your knowledge of the initial conditions will often grow inexorably. After a while, your predictions are nonsense.”

4. “In non linear systems-and the economy is most certainly nonlinear-chaos theory tells you that the slightest uncertainty in your knowledge of the initial conditions will often grow inexorably. After a while, your predictions are nonsense.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “If the chemistry was too simple and the complexity of the interactions was too low, then nothing would happen; the system would be “subcritical.” But if the complexity of the interactions was rich enough-and Kauffman’s mathematics now allowed him to define precisely what that meant-then the system would be “supercritical.” Autocatalysis would be inevitable. And the order really would be for free.”

5. “If the chemistry was too simple and the complexity of the interactions was too low, then nothing would happen; the system would be “subcritical.” But if the complexity of the interactions was rich enough-and Kauffman’s mathematics now allowed him to define precisely what that meant-then the system would be “supercritical.” Autocatalysis would be inevitable. And the order really would be for free.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Competition and cooperation may seem antithetical,” he says, “but at some very deep level, they are two sides of the same coin.”

6. “Competition and cooperation may seem antithetical,” he says, “but at some very deep level, they are two sides of the same coin.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “It’s also the principle that lies behind all of Oriental martial arts. You don’t try to stop your opponent, you let him come at you-and then give him a tap in just the right direction as he rushes by. The idea is to observe, to act courageously, and to pick your timing extremely well.”

7. “It’s also the principle that lies behind all of Oriental martial arts. You don’t try to stop your opponent, you let him come at you-and then give him a tap in just the right direction as he rushes by. The idea is to observe, to act courageously, and to pick your timing extremely well.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “I think there’s a personality that goes with this kind of thing,” Arthur says. “It’s people who like process and pattern, as opposed to people who are comfortable with stasis and order. I know that every time in my life that I’ve run across simple rules giving rise to emergent, complex messiness, I’ve just said, ‘Ah, isn’t that lovely!’ And I think that sometimes, when other people run across it, they recoil.”

8. “I think there’s a personality that goes with this kind of thing,” Arthur says. “It’s people who like process and pattern, as opposed to people who are comfortable with stasis and order. I know that every time in my life that I’ve run across simple rules giving rise to emergent, complex messiness, I’ve just said, ‘Ah, isn’t that lovely!’ And I think that sometimes, when other people run across it, they recoil.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Like it or not, the marketplace isn’t stable. The world isn’t stable. It’s full of evolution, upheaval, and surprise.”

9. “Like it or not, the marketplace isn’t stable. The world isn’t stable. It’s full of evolution, upheaval, and surprise.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Why is it that simple particles obeying simple rules will sometimes engage in the most astonishing, unpredictable behavior?”

10. “Why is it that simple particles obeying simple rules will sometimes engage in the most astonishing, unpredictable behavior?”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “They believe that they are forging the first rigorous alternative to the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton – and that has now gone about as far as it can go in addressing the problems of our modern world.”

11. “They believe that they are forging the first rigorous alternative to the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton – and that has now gone about as far as it can go in addressing the problems of our modern world.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “The point was that you have to look at the world as it is, not as some elegant theory says it ought to be.”

12. “The point was that you have to look at the world as it is, not as some elegant theory says it ought to be.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Theoretical economists use their mathematical prowess the way the great stags of the forest use their antlers: to do battle with one another and to establish dominance.”

13. “Theoretical economists use their mathematical prowess the way the great stags of the forest use their antlers: to do battle with one another and to establish dominance.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Nonetheless, his vision of high technology’s enhancing and empowering the individual, as opposed to serving some large institution, was quite radical for 1939 – so radical, in fact, that it wouldn’t really take hold of the public’s imagination for another forty years, at which point it would reemerge as the central message of the personal-computer revolution.”

14. “Nonetheless, his vision of high technology’s enhancing and empowering the individual, as opposed to serving some large institution, was quite radical for 1939 – so radical, in fact, that it wouldn’t really take hold of the public’s imagination for another forty years, at which point it would reemerge as the central message of the personal-computer revolution.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “It will require the renunciation or sublimation or transformation of our traditional appetites: to outbreed, outconsume, and conquer our rivals, especially our rivals in other tribes. These impulses may once have been adaptive. Indeed, they may even be hard-wired into our brains. But we no longer have the luxury of tolerating them. And.”

15. “It will require the renunciation or sublimation or transformation of our traditional appetites: to outbreed, outconsume, and conquer our rivals, especially our rivals in other tribes. These impulses may once have been adaptive. Indeed, they may even be hard-wired into our brains. But we no longer have the luxury of tolerating them. And.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “So for James, too, will derives not from the freedom to initiate thoughts, but to focus on and select some while stifling, blocking-or vetoing-others. For Buddhist mindfulness practice, it is the moment of restraint that allows mindful awareness to take hold and deepen. The essence of directed mental force is first to stop the grinding machine-like automaticity of the urge to act. Only then can the wisdom of the prefrontal cortex be actively engaged.”

16. “So for James, too, will derives not from the freedom to initiate thoughts, but to focus on and select some while stifling, blocking-or vetoing-others. For Buddhist mindfulness practice, it is the moment of restraint that allows mindful awareness to take hold and deepen. The essence of directed mental force is first to stop the grinding machine-like automaticity of the urge to act. Only then can the wisdom of the prefrontal cortex be actively engaged.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem; the way its capabilities are used is as much a matter of cultural choice and historical accident as politics is, or fashion.”

17. “Technology isn’t destiny, no matter how inexorable its evolution may seem; the way its capabilities are used is as much a matter of cultural choice and historical accident as politics is, or fashion.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Another TX-0 hacker devised what was essentially the first word processor, a program that allowed you to type in your class reports and then format the text for output on the Flexowriter. Since it made the three-million-dollar TX-0 behave like a three-hundred-dollar typewriter – much to the outrage of traditionalists who saw this, too, as a ludicrous waste of computer power – the program became known as Expensive Typewriter.”

18. “Another TX-0 hacker devised what was essentially the first word processor, a program that allowed you to type in your class reports and then format the text for output on the Flexowriter. Since it made the three-million-dollar TX-0 behave like a three-hundred-dollar typewriter – much to the outrage of traditionalists who saw this, too, as a ludicrous waste of computer power – the program became known as Expensive Typewriter.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody purpose.”

19. “Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody purpose.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “To Wiener, there seemed every possibility that computers and other such technologies of the cybernetic age – he would later coin the phrase “the Second Industrial Revolution” – would have consequences just as dire. Inevitably, he felt, the rich and the powerful would seek to use these new technologies of communication and control to cement their power even further.”

20. “To Wiener, there seemed every possibility that computers and other such technologies of the cybernetic age – he would later coin the phrase “the Second Industrial Revolution” – would have consequences just as dire. Inevitably, he felt, the rich and the powerful would seek to use these new technologies of communication and control to cement their power even further.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “This experience, Lick would say, gave him an instant insight into the scientific method: Always be extremely careful in your work – and in your proclamations of faith.”

21. “This experience, Lick would say, gave him an instant insight into the scientific method: Always be extremely careful in your work – and in your proclamations of faith.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Tracy’s dad was setting in motion the forces that would give rise to essentially all of modern computing: time-sharing, personal computing, the mouse, graphical user interfaces, the explosion of creativity at Xerox PARC, the Internet – all of it.”

22. “Tracy’s dad was setting in motion the forces that would give rise to essentially all of modern computing: time-sharing, personal computing, the mouse, graphical user interfaces, the explosion of creativity at Xerox PARC, the Internet – all of it.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “However fierce the controversy surrounding its birth, the stored-program concept now ranks as one of the great ideas of the computer age – arguably the great idea.”

23. “However fierce the controversy surrounding its birth, the stored-program concept now ranks as one of the great ideas of the computer age – arguably the great idea.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “What have you done today that was altruistic, creative, or educational?”

24. “What have you done today that was altruistic, creative, or educational?”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Ultimately, in fact, they would enter into a kind of symbiosis with humans, forming a cohesive whole that would think more powerfully than any human being had ever thought and process data in ways that no machine could ever do by itself.”

25. “Ultimately, in fact, they would enter into a kind of symbiosis with humans, forming a cohesive whole that would think more powerfully than any human being had ever thought and process data in ways that no machine could ever do by itself.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “Unlike Davies, he didn’t have to work through the British Postal Service. And unlike Baran, he didn’t have to work through the Defense Communications Agency. Roberts was backed by ARPA, whose whole reason for existing was to cut through the bureaucracy. His bosses were giving him a free hand. And he meant to exercise that freedom. He meant to get this network ready to.”

26. “Unlike Davies, he didn’t have to work through the British Postal Service. And unlike Baran, he didn’t have to work through the Defense Communications Agency. Roberts was backed by ARPA, whose whole reason for existing was to cut through the bureaucracy. His bosses were giving him a free hand. And he meant to exercise that freedom. He meant to get this network ready to.”

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M. Mitchell Waldrop Quote: “By the late 1960s such visions would inspire Dad’s hand-picked successors to implement his Intergalactic Network, now known as the Arpanet. By the 1970s, moreover, they would begin to expand the Arpanet even further, into the network of networks known today as the Internet.”

27. “By the late 1960s such visions would inspire Dad’s hand-picked successors to implement his Intergalactic Network, now known as the Arpanet. By the 1970s, moreover, they would begin to expand the Arpanet even further, into the network of networks known today as the Internet.”

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