A Quote by David Berlinski on god, nothing, computers, software, and world
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer, Pages: 14
Contributed by: Chris

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