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

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

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

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?