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 devices.

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.

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

You can't bluff your way past everyone.""You mean about filleting that guy?" Sera returned."Who said I was bluffing?

It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.