70 Quotes by Seth Lloyd

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim.

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.

A classical computation is like a solo voice—one line of pure tones succeeding each other. A quantum computation is like a symphony—many lines of tones interfering with one another.

If economics is the dismal science, then quantum gravity is the dismal physics

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

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

Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.

People are becoming more and more interested in science, and that's because they realize that science impacts their daily lives in important ways.

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.