K. A. Schloegel

“The effective complexity of a living system can be defined as the number of bits of information that affect the system’s ability to consume energy and reproduce.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“as pointed out by Edward Fredkin of Carnegie Mellon University and Tommaso Toffoli of Boston University, atomic collisions naturally perform AND, OR, NOT, and COPY logic operations. In the language of information processing, atomic collisions are computationally universal.”
― Seth Lloyd, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“But from where I’m sitting, hope seems a lot like white liquor. It can fool you in the short run, but like as not, you’ll end up paying for it twice.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She rips the envelope open with her thumb and reads, and by the second line, her cheeks hurt from the fierceness of her smile.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War