Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.