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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
- Comedy
- Computers
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing1912–1954Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 442.
- Computers
- Thinking
I think we’re living through a very unique moment where again it proves that information is power. It’s a completely chaotic time where technology has helped make facts disputable, eroded truth, and crippled trust.
Maria Ressaborn 1963Time 100 Speech (April 24, 2019)
- Truth & Lies
Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.
Albert Camus1913–1960Editorial in Combat (8 August 1945), after Hiroshima; translated in Between Hell and Reason (1991)
- War & Peace
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
Tim Cookborn 1960Q&A after Apple’s earnings call (24 April 2012)
Everyone is a programmer now. You just have to say something to the computer.
Jensen Huangborn 1963“Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says AI is creating a ‘new computing era’” in Financial Post (30 May 2023)
- Computers
I believe the merge has already started, and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.
Sam Altmanborn 1985“The Merge”, blog post (2017)
- Internet
AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.
Sam Altmanborn 1985Head of Silicon Valley’s most important startup farm says we’re in a ‘mega bubble’ that won’t last, Business Insider (5 June 2015)
- Business
It is a failure of human imagination and human arrogance to assume that we will never build things smarter than ourselves.
Sam Altmanborn 1985“The Merge”, blog post (2017)
- Intelligence
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018“Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers!”, reddit.com (8 October 2015)
- Economics
No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume of organized information to be fed in.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), Ch. 3: “Metaphor”, 3.12 Conclusions
- Computers
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 8: Quick Is Beautiful, p. 135.
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Disturbing the Universe (1979)
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan1911–1980The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
Frank Abagnaleborn 1948Frank Abagnale Jr.—Biography, Internet Movie Database, accessed 2008-10-12