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As reviewer Corey S. Powell put it in the ''New York Times''. Lloyd:
<blockquote>In the space of 221 dense, frequently thrilling and occasionally exasperating pages, … tackles computer logic, [[thermodynamics]], [[chaos theory]], [[complexity]], [[quantum mechanics]], [[cosmology]], [[consciousness]], sex and the [[origin of life]] — throwing in, for good measure, a heartbreaking afterword that repaints the significance of all that has come before. The source of all this intellectual mayhem is the kind of Big Idea so prevalent in popular science books these days. Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., takes as his topic the fundamental workings of the [[universe]]…, which he thinks has been horribly misunderstood. Scientists have looked at it as a ragtag collection of [[Subatomic particle|particles]] and [[Field (physics)|fields]] while failing to see what it is as a majestic whole: an enormous [[computer]].<ref>{{cite news
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