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[[Michael Nielsen]] called the book "a beautiful synthesis of what we know",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1277#comment-66937|title=Comment by Michael Nielsen on Shtetl-Optimized Quantum Computing Since Democritus: The Buzz Intensifies|last=|first=|date=|website=www.scottaaronson.com|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref> while [[Seth Lloyd]] praised it as "lucid", describing Aaronson as a "tornado of intellectual activity".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107302105|title=Quantum Computing since Democritus - Cambridge University Press|website=www.cambridge.org|language=en|access-date=2017-09-09}}</ref>

The [[Journal of the American Mathematical Society]] considered it to have "much insight, wisdom, and fun", but conceded that it "is not for everyone',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wigderson|first=Avi|date=|title=Quantum Computing Since Democritus Book Review|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1218.pdf|journal=Journal of the American Mathematical Society|volume=61, Number 10|pages=1218-1220|via=}}</ref> while [[Luboš Motl|Luboṥ Motl]] praised Aaronson's writing as "very witty, narcisistically ([[sic]]) witty", but considered the book to be scientifically dubious.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://motls.blogspot.com/2013/04/scott-aaronson-prototype-of-some.html|title=Scott Aaronson: a prototype of some confusion of IT scientists about physics|website=The Reference Frame|access-date=2017-09-10}}</ref>

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