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.

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

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

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 things like digital computations?

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

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

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

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

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

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.

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 normal circumstances.

Dignity impacts the quality of your external world in your relationships, communications, and interactions.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

I promise you, I'm fake sometimes, but other times I'm like, dude sit down.

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.