Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. Seth Lloyd More Quotes by Seth Lloyd More Quotes From Seth Lloyd Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. Seth Lloyd starting-overablesimple 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 hijackingmachinesorder The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. Seth Lloyd quantumongoingcomputer 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 hackinghijackinglight Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. Seth Lloyd metabolismlawlife-is Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet. Seth Lloyd mutationimaginationfirsts 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. Seth Lloyd mechanicquantumorder Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves. Seth Lloyd argumentfoolbelieve Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time. Seth Lloyd mechaniccomputerbreak Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial. Seth Lloyd controversialcomputerthinking There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. Seth Lloyd degreesinformationimportant Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction. Seth Lloyd virusesspreadignorance If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. Seth Lloyd dynamicsviewshair Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. Seth Lloyd informationwantneeds 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. Seth Lloyd significantcomputerinformation For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role. Seth Lloyd dnasexmoving 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. Seth Lloyd digitalcomputerfacts 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. Seth Lloyd computerpowerfulwanted According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. Seth Lloyd densitysittingyears In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. Seth Lloyd atomsinformationorder
