Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, this bipartisan National Quantum Initiative Act is cosponsored by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson, as well as 24 other committee members. The bill has earned widespread support and was unanimously approved by the committee on June 27. Before I explain what the bill does, I would like to explain why it matters so much. In our lifetime, we have seen remarkable advances in the size and speed of our computers. Most of us carry phones in our pockets that are several thousand times more powerful than all the combined computing power available to NASA during the Apollo missions. Yet, as impressive as these advances have been, quantum computing has the power to affect an even more dramatic transformation of our society and worldwide technology. Computers today rely on tiny on-off switches within a processing chip. Technological advances have made possible supercomputers that can perform series of on-off operations at astonishing speeds. But classical computing technology is nearing its limits. Each switch can only operate in one of two positions, off or on, zero or one. Quantum computing is different. Rather than on-off switches, quantum computers rely on qubits. These are subatomic particles that can be both on and off at the same time.…”