7 Quotes & Sayings By Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd is a mechanical engineer at IBM Research in New York. His research interests include computational materials science. He has been active in the field of robotics since the early 1980s, when he co-founded iRobot, Inc., which manufactures consumer products such as the Roomba vacuum cleaner. The company has grown to approximately 1,000 employees and over $100 million in annual revenue Read more

He was named one of MIT's fifty-five "most influential alumni" by the MIT Magazine in 2007.

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim...
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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
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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
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. Seth Lloyd
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Something else has happened with computers. Seth Lloyd
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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. Seth Lloyd
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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. Seth Lloyd