"I argue that quantum mechanics is fundamentally a theory about the representation and manipulation of information, not a theory about the mechanics of nonclassical waves or particles."
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Jeffrey Bub, "Quantum Mechanics is About Quantum Information", Foundations of Physics, Vol. 35, No. 4, April 2005
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