Seth Lloyd Quotes
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.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.
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In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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What it takes to produce a gravitational repulsion is a negative pressure. According to general relativity, it turns out... both pressures and energy densities can produce gravitational fields, unlike Newtonian physics, where it's only mass densities that produce gravitational fields.
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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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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.
