Something else has happened with computers.

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.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

You were never what I wanted to forget.

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.