Computation Quote by 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 the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.”

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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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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

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