Seth Lloyd Quotes

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 info...

Something else has happened with computers.

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Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is an American quantum information scientist and professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering.
He has done seminal work in quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum biology, including proposing the first feasible design for a quantum computer, demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of Shannon's theorem, and designing novel methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction.

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.

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

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

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

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...