Technology Quotes

“In the world of the future, the new kingdoms will be kingdoms of the mind.”

“Computation is a kind of alchemy.”

“A computer is a machine that can be programmed to do anything that can be done with symbols.”

“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.”

“Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.”

“We are in a new golden age of AI.”

“The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their popular acceptation.”

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”

“We were flying a winged vehicle. We had a lot more drag than the capsule boys did.”

“Encryption is a double-edged sword.”

“The central problem with the new privacy is that it is a one-way mirror.”

“Anything that you can do, a machine will be able to do.”

“The path to strong AI is to reverse-engineer the neocortex.”

“We're seeing a new generation of systems that can reason and learn.”

“The more you can automate, the more you can get to a lights-out environment, the more you can get people out of the process, the more you can get variability and error out of the process.”

“It's important to have free and open source software to be able to control your own technical environment.”

“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.”

“The work done at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is critical to our nation's scientific and technological leadership.”

“The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain.”