“The orthodox quantum theory is a recipe, a computational recipe, which has been fantastically successful.”— John Stewart Bell
“The argument is that the Gödel theorem shows that there's something in our understanding that is not computational.”— Roger Penrose
“The ability to perform quantum computation is a fundamental feature of the laws of physics.”— Seth Lloyd
“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
“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 laws of physics are the program, and the initial state of the universe is the input.”— Seth Lloyd
“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
“A computer is a machine that can be programmed to do anything that can be done with symbols.”— Marvin Minsky
“My own view is that the brain is not a computer, and the mind is not a computer program.”— Roger Penrose
“This gives an overall theoretical model which is computationally efficient and which can be applied to a wide range of chemical problems.”— John Pople
“In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold its own or increase, elementary data analysis should be happy to stay away from theorems.”— John Tukey