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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."
"The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything."
"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s."
"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in."
Explore more quotes by Seth Lloyd
"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about."
"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
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