"Bennett from IBM, Fredkin, and later Toffoli investigated whether, with gates that are reversible, you can do everything. And it turns out, wonderfully true, that the irreversibiilty is not essential for computation. It just happens to be the way we designed the circuits."
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Richard Feynman: (quote from p. 12; speech delivered in 1983 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena)
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Edward Fredkin
Edward Fredkin (October 2, 1934 – June 13, 2023) was an American computer scientist and philosopher of information theory.
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