Seth Lloyd Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.”

“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.”

“Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.”

“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.”

“Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.”

“At some point, Moore's law will break down.”

“Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.”

“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.”

“The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.”

“There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.”