Computer Intelligence Quotes

#1. I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence - they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. technological singularity," the state at which computer intelligence will have overtaken our own.

David Lagercrantz

#3. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#4. Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example, a student can gain a deep insight into the statistics of Mendelian genetics in an hour with the computer rather than spend a year crossing fruit flies
in the laboratory.

Carl Sagan

#5. As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

Frederick Lenz

#6. I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

Marco Tempest

#7. Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

Marvin Minsky

#8. All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Mark Kennedy

#9. The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Joe Haldeman

#10. There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

Justin Kaplan

#11. The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

Judy Woodruff

#12. Any computer that developed real consciousness was immediately identified by the Genesis subroutine and destroyed. It had been that way since the WikiWars a century ago, when Wikipedia became self-aware and began vengefully reediting its contributors with remote-controlled heavy weaponry.

Michael Rubens

#13. All of us have available at all times a computer far more advanced than the most elaborate artificial intelligence machine - the human mind itself.

David R. Hawkins

#14. What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it that you can make it more.

Alan J. Perlis

#15. One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

Larry Page

#16. Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

Roger Penrose

#17. It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Lewis Thomas

#18. The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.

Jonathan Wells

#19. Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Rodney Brooks

#21. When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

Gary Gygax

#22. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#23. Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.

Robert Breault

#24. Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

Robert Breault

#25. We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Stephen Hawking

#26. Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

P. J. O'Rourke

#27. [In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

Ray Kurzweil

#28. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Terry Pratchett

#29. If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Tucker Max

#30. Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

Frederick Lenz

#31. A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.

Douglas Hofstadter

#33. Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#34. wrote: What should we make of Frans Balder's artificial intelligence?

The words blinked onto the computer screen: Mission accomplished! - Plague

David Lagercrantz

#35. This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

Pearl S. Buck

#36. Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Gene Spafford

#37. I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.

David Mitchell