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

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.

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.

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.

Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

Never economize on luxuries.

... once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.