70 Quotes by Seth Lloyd

The other neat thing about these quantum computers is that they're also storing a bit of information on every available degree of freedom.

So science is basically, at it most fundamental level, a public form of knowledge, a form of knowledge that is in principle accessible to everybody.

This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.

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.

Clearly, packaging issues alone make it unlikely that this limit can be obtained, even setting aside the difficulties of stability and control.

I build quantum computers that store information on individual atoms and then massage the normal interactions between the atoms to make them compute.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

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.

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