Well there are "qgates" in the form of the transformations we can apply to qbits. And I would say that the operands of those transformations should probably be

Well there are "qgates" in the form of the transformations we can apply to qbits. And I would say that the operands of those transformations should probably be called qbits because that's where information is stored in the quantum computer for doing operations. It may not resemble classical data too closely, but it's still an information store.