No longer among the living. Pretty impressive mentally.

Edit: The guy was funny, too.

50 years with ALS. Fuck.

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An amazing guy. Rest in power.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Had to sit down for this one. Physics community will be paralyzed for a while.

Seriously, though. Seemed like a good dude. Impact on science can’t be overstated. Can’t imagine living like that for so long.

One of the few times I agree with using rest in power

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Well, fuck.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Quite the legacy.

RIP.

It's odd that, for a guy having such a famously incurable disease, I never really thought of him passing away.

At about the worst time possibly ever, this nation has gotten dumber in his absence.

He did an AMA on reddit a couple years ago ... rather inneresting reply to the final question he fielded:

I'm rather late to the question-asking party, but I'll ask anyway and hope. Have you thought about the possibility of technological unemployment, where we develop automated processes that ultimately cause large unemployment by performing jobs faster and/or cheaper than people can perform them? Some compare this thought to the thoughts of the Luddites, whose revolt was caused in part by perceived technological unemployment over 100 years ago. In particular, do you foresee a world where people work less because so much work is automated? Do you think people will always either find work or manufacture more work to be done? Thank you for your time and your contributions. I’ve found research to be a largely social endeavor, and you've been an inspiration to so many.

Answer:

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

The changes at the score today and trying to keep up with the forum was probably too much for the chap.

He snuffed it on the same month/date Einstein was born (03/14) ... which some weirdos celebrate as Pi Day.

Not that that means anything.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Of course the I fucking love science crowd is inconsolable. Someone get them some condescending memes to cope.

im only posting this here for my safety, but im glad hes dead because he hasn't added much to science in the last 20 years and it's extremely annoying to see him in that stupid chair and hearing that god awful computer voice. cool guy tho

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

I'm the giant whose shoulders you'd have stood on if you could stand,
I'll give you a brief history of pain with the back of my hand.

RIP.

The mythical "people on twitter" is living rent free in America's head.

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For as brilliant as he was, the one thing he had little understanding of was God.

Same goes for Chomsky. I know from corresponding with him. Zero wisdom.

Science can explain many things. The spirit is not one of them.

Can God explain why you're a fucking retard?

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No easier than he can explain why you're a dog killing ...

I'll take his guess over anyone else's guess.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Everything happens for a reason.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

He also said not to contact the aliens because they're probably gonna take us over, which is interesting.

Carl Sagan was a much better writer, but I think Hawking had more of an impact on science. I could be wrong about the latter.