"To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole."

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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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“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of â€œnational economyâ€ . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of â€œnational economyâ€ . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.”
“In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.”
“Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.”
“It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.”
“I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport ,the metal detector goes off.”
“I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.”
“There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.”
“Spiritual growth is the only real growth”

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