"Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial."

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"Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial."

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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

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"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."

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"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!"

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"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."

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"In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is."

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

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

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"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process."

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"Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information."

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"I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex."

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"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."

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