The Quantum Pontiff

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Most people in quantum information science try to be sensitive to not overhyping the field. (Okay, so I get a little breathless sometimes!) This, however, is pretty amusing. I especially like

But could you imagine not using a Quantum Computer to come up with the most efficient sequence of nanobots to administer the cure to cancer.

Quantum-nano-bio!

Update: Jon brings up in the comments the word “quantum leap.” I have always found it amusing that in the Oxford English dictionary uses this example from 1977, as one of the early uses:

New Yorker 13 June 108/2 The imperial Presidency did not begin with Richard Nixon although under him abuses of the office took a quantum leap.

Of course once you find this out, you are at the OED website and you can’t help finding words like “quaquadrate” which means a sixteenth power.