“I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it s…”

“I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

— Stephen Hawking

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Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in The Daily News (4 August 1994). A nearly identical quote can be found at the end of the second paragraph of his lecture Life in the Universe (1996).

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Hawking, Stephen. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Stephen Hawking. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

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