“The laws of physics are the program, and the initial state of the universe is the input.”— Seth Lloyd
“The orthodox quantum theory is a recipe, a computational recipe, which has been fantastically successful.”— John Stewart Bell
“I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way that the human brain does.”— Bill Joy
“The ability to perform quantum computation is a fundamental feature of the laws of physics.”— Seth Lloyd
“A computer is a machine that can be programmed to do anything that can be done with symbols.”— Marvin Minsky
“The argument is that the Gödel theorem shows that there's something in our understanding that is not computational.”— Roger Penrose
“SICP is not about a programming language. It is about the process of computation and how to think about it.”— Hal Abelson
“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”— Howard Aiken
“The number of electrons is very large, and the number of dimensions of the wave function is correspondingly large. This is the great computational challenge of chemistry and physics and biology.”— Walter Kohn
“The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”— John McCarthy