"When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer."

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Source : "Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

Seth Lloyd

#Light Quotes #Hijacking Quotes #Hacking Quotes

“My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.”
“What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact.”

Source : "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.
“It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.”
“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.”
“Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.”
“Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.”
“There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.”

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