Seth Lloyd Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Seth Lloyd

  Simple, Starting Over, Able

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

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  Becoming, Computer, Capacity

• 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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  Powerful, Computer, Wanted

• We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.

  Seth Lloyd

  Order, Machines, Hijacking

  "Q&A: Seth Lloyd". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. July 1, 2006.

• 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 significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

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  Information, Computer, Significant

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

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  Computer, Mechanic, Break

  "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

• The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

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  Ongoing, Computer, Quantum

• Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

  Seth Lloyd

  Thinking, Computer, Controversial

• Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.

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  School, Law, Car

  Nature 430, 971, August 26, 2004.

• 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.

  Seth Lloyd

  Light, Hijacking, Hacking

  "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

• 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 it is.

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  Digital, Facts, Computer

• [With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

  Seth Lloyd

  Energy, Use, Flip

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