Seth Lloyd Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.”

“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.”

“Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.”

“Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.”

“Something else has happened with computers.”

“One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?”

“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.”

“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.”