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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

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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. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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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. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. ↗

— 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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We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. ↗

— James Lovelock

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