All Seth Lloyd Quotes
- Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. Able
- Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. Certain
- 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… According
- Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex. Another Feature
- At some point, Moore's law will break down. Break
- 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… All
- 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… Changes
- 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,… Bases
- 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… Capable
- 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. 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… Arose
- 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… Atoms
- 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… All
- 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… All
- 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… Amount
- Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. Anybody
- The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. Computation
- Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction. Bits
- There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. Advantage
- Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial. Computer