Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

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.

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

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

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.