Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996.

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

Within our lifetimes, we will be able to push out enough computational power to simulate reality.

Traditional computing is always going to be a part of AMD's business, but our technology can go further.

[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.