Author: Seth Lloyd

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

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

- Seth Lloyd

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

- Seth Lloyd

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

- Seth Lloyd

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

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

- Seth Lloyd

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

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

- Seth Lloyd

Something else has happened with computers.

Something else has happened with computers.

- Seth Lloyd

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

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

- Seth Lloyd

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