Quantum Computers Quotes

#1. 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.

Seth Lloyd

#2. Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

Seth Lloyd

#3. Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

Frank Tipler

#4. [With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.

Seth Lloyd

#5. We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

Joyce Meyer

#6. This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

Lisa Cholodenko

#7. All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.

Kevin Michel

#8. I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Jimmy Buffett

#9. Qafzeh's algorithms - if implemented properly on a particular architecture of quantum computer - led to a net heat loss from the local universe. A cryo-arithmetic engine was in essence just a computer, running computational cycles. Unlike ordinary computers, however, it got colder the faster it ran.

Alastair Reynolds

#10. Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.

Jenna Blum

#11. Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Stefan Zweig

#12. I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

Alan Pardew

#13. If you imagine the difference between an abacus and the world's fastest supercomputer, you would still not have the barest inkling of how much more powerful a quantum computer could be compared with the computers we have today.

Marcus Chown

#14. By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

Michio Kaku

#15. In the industrial nations, there's a sense that Africa would go under without development aid. But believe me, Africa existed before you Europeans came along. And we didn't do all that poorly either.

James Shikwati

#16. She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.

E. Lockhart

#17. This duck tells me nothing!

Daniel O'Malley