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

- Seth Lloyd

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…

- Seth Lloyd

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

- Seth Lloyd

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…

- Seth Lloyd

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

- Seth Lloyd

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

- Seth Lloyd

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…

- Seth Lloyd

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 …

- Seth Lloyd

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

- Seth Lloyd