“I think it’s important to clarify that this is not an impossible task where you have to first build a quantum computer to say anything about the problem,”

“It’s not [the electron-volt sterile neutrino] for sure. And so the question is: What else is it?”

“This is, in my opinion, the death knell for sterile neutrinos”

““We put together a lot of things,” Preskill said. “When you do it right, the answer turns out to be surprisingly encouraging.””

““We just have to build these machines and see if they work,” Preskill said.”

“Preskill, for his part, would like to simulate the quantum nature of space-time.”

“Show me that you can do a million rounds or something.”

“Photography is one of many ways of communicating to the public about excitement — why I’m a scientist, and why we are doing what we’re doing”

“It might be a way where there’s a quantum rescue from the quantum disaster of Shor’s algorithm.”

“Shor’s algorithm made our idea unavoidable”

“She is the expert of gravity-matter systems in asymptotic safety,”

“Maybe we need a separate theory to understand this other class of problems.”

“doesn’t simply represent ignorance about what is the case, [but] a new sort of ignorance about something that doesn’t yet have a truth value, something that simply isn’t one way or the…”

“They can survive the process of copying, and so the information about them can multiply.”

“Water is seeing nothing but other water, but in an electronic system, in a wire, that’s manifestly not the case.”

“We have to figure out how to do it in between 10 and 20 billion [dollars].”

“I don’t share that view. There are many opportunities for nature to provide clues at low energies.”

“the fact that it’s not giving positive results does not mean we are stuck, dead, or wasting our time.”

“That includes the vacuum energy, so you can’t ignore it.”

“It is treating the process of colliding things together and forming new particles as a quantum processor,”