Quote of the day by PsiQuantum CEO Jeremy O’Brien: 'If you think the goal is to get to the top of the Empire State Building, you build longer ladders' — a challenge to incremental hardware progress in quantum computing
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PsiQuantum’s Empire State Building analogy is a shot at incrementalism—arguing today’s quantum hardware roadmaps may never reach commercially useful scale. For CTOs with “quantum-ready” projects on the slide, this is a reminder to separate marketing hedges from real timelines and keep most of your optimization work on classical and AI rails for now.
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