Seth Lloyd Quotes

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim.

~ Seth Lloyd

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

~ Seth Lloyd

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

~ Seth Lloyd

Something else has happened with computers.

~ Seth Lloyd

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.

~ Seth Lloyd

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

~ Seth Lloyd