Seth Lloyd Quotes

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• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
• Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
• According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting…
• Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.
• At some point, Moore's law will break down.
• All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what…
• Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you…
• I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe,…
• I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that…
• If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
• If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems…
• In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process…
• Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's…
• For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of…
• What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a…
• Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
• The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
• Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
• There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.
• Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

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