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

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.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves.

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

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