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Seth Lloyd Quotes

American - Educator | -

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

Life Death Law Nothing Taxes Second

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

Simple Computers Famous Complicated

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

Start Now Sitting Matter Galaxy

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

Life History World Thinking Sex Way

Something else has happened with computers.

Computers Something Happened Else

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.

Society Computers Process Information

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Law Down Will Point Break Some

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

Information Laptop Than Much Higher

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

Freedom Information Important Being

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.

Memory Space Energy Matter Turn

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

Knowledge Science Those Anybody

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.

Work Science People Go Out Willing

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