“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.”
Seth Lloyd“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.”
Seth Lloyd“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.”
Seth Lloyd“Something else has happened with computers.”
Seth Lloyd“Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.”
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.”
Seth Lloyd, John Brockman“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.”
Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos