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“Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.”

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Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if…

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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

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Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

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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.

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There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

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When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

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It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that…

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Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

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