"In this metaphor we actually have a picture……" — Seth Lloyd
"In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program."
—
Seth Lloyd
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
31 Quotes by Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd has 31 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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,…
-
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…
-
Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms…
-
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the…
-
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal…
-
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the…
-
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe…
-
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and…
See all 31 quotes by Seth Lloyd »
More Computational Quotes
This quote is filed under Computational Quotes,
one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and…
— Eric Kandel
-
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to…
— Unknown Author
-
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the…
— Seth Lloyd
-
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the…
— Gerald Weinberg
-
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind…
— Sherry Turkle
-
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.
— Roger Penrose
-
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on…
— Bram Cohen
-
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational…
— David Eagleman
-
Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution…
— Vinton Cerf
-
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of…
— Dennis Ritchie
-
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational…
— Evgeny Morozov
-
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face…
— Nicholas A. Christakis
See all 17 Computational Quotes »