Funny physics qoutes

From Qwiki

• "If you start to acquire money, then others must lose money which is called capitalism. In physics this is the miracle known as lasing."

-Joe Hope describing the mechanics of an atom laser (PRACQSYS 2007).

• "So what your saying Andrew is, rocket science really is rocket science"

-Sean Barret commenting on Andrew Doherty 's description of the current state of affairs in the USA's space program (PRACQSYS 2007).

• "The classical algorithms are efficient. As efficient as if god told them where to go."

-Terry Rudolph on finding the shortest path between two random points in a percolation cluster state (Coogee 2008).

• "I object to the introduction of ethics into quantum mechanics"

-Crispin Gardiner remarks about Howard Wiseman's use of the word trust in a talk about quantum steering (2007).

• "What if, in the case where he doesn’t trust them, they won’t communicate, they don’t have any entanglement, but they have a whole bunch of Paul Kwiat’s old papers, and they can look up his data and things like that?” - Steve Bartlett .....“Shared classical randomness, however much you have of it, does not enable you to violate a Bell inequality” - Howard Wiseman... “Even Paul Kwiat’s papers!” - David Poulin (Coogee 2008).

• "So they [philosophers] are sort of like an academic fire brigade. You come in put the fires out and get the hell out” - Chris Fuchs (PIAF 2008).

• "Yea something like that ... think there must be better metaphors than that" -Huw Price ..." Its more like academic rubbish clearing , brush clearing, clearing out the under growth" -Gerard Milburn ... "yes thats right gardeners or something like that" - Huw Price (PIAF 2008).