The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
—Rabindranath Tagore
Los Alamos Laboratory was celebrating its fortieth anniversary on April 14, 1983. Physics Laureate Richard P. Feynman stated in a lecture titled “Tiny Computers Obeying Quantum-Mechanical Laws” that computing based on classical logic could not easily and efficiently process calculations describing quantum phenomena. He offered his vision of computing that could operate in a quantum ...
