Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another plac….

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially availab….

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening….

We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and pr….

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction..

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer..

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

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool device….

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial..

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under ….

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs..

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. ….

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view o….

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day..

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing thi….

[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use ….

The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although ….

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

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, ….

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare….

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 ….