"The history of the universe is, in effect,……" — Seth Lloyd
"The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer."
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31 Quotes by Seth Lloyd
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter,…
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Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.
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At some point, Moore's law will break down.
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All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will…
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Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms…
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I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the…
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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal…
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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…
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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe…
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In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and…
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More Computation Quotes
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
— Charles Lyell
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Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances…
— Lewis Fry Richardson
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Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.
— John Allen Paulos
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The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world,…
— Ronald Reagan
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When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and…
— Epictetus
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Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it…
— John A. Van de Walle
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As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia…
— Unknown Author
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My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
— Poul Anderson
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The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry…
— Paul Dirac
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Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.
— Roger Penrose
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All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will…
— Seth Lloyd
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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal…
— Seth Lloyd
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