Quantum computation is. . . a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. . . It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.
What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner.
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend to keep my musings to myself. There is interesting, legitimate metaphysical work on the topic going at least as far back as Leibniz and continuing today, following the theme that consciousness, or at least computation, might be at least as fundamental as phenomena such as space, time, energy, and matter, which are the usual subject matter of physics. I follow that sort of thing with interest but with very modest expectations that answers will be arrived at during my lifetime.
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.
