"The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer."

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Source : "The Father of Quantum Computing". Interview with Quinn Norton, www.wired.com. February 15, 2007.

David Deutsch

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“I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.”
“The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.”
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.”
“Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
“This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2004). “The Railway Children”, p.334, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
“I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.”
“It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.”

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