Seth Lloyd

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not…

— Seth Lloyd

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your…

— Seth Lloyd

“Moore’s law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.”

— Seth Lloyd

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that…

— Seth Lloyd

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the…

— Seth Lloyd

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out…

— Seth Lloyd

For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all…

— Seth Lloyd

“As mentioned before, quantum mechanics guarantees that any physical system with finite energy confined to a finite volume of space has a…

— Seth Lloyd

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its…

— Seth Lloyd

We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing…

— Seth Lloyd

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually…

— Seth Lloyd

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right…

— Seth Lloyd

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in…

— Seth Lloyd

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

— Seth Lloyd

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in…

— Seth Lloyd

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point…

— Seth Lloyd

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while…

— Seth Lloyd

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand…

— Seth Lloyd

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

— Seth Lloyd

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but…

— Seth Lloyd

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

— Seth Lloyd

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

— Seth Lloyd

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it…

— Seth Lloyd

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in…

— Seth Lloyd