Geoffrey Hinton Quotes

#1. A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

Evan Osnos

#2. A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Syd Barrett

#3. Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

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#4. Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

Ted Cruz

#5. And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

Herman Melville

#6. Food is fabulous, and having a good relationship with it will make you healthy and happy.

Denise Austin

#7. In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number.

Geoffrey Hinton

#8. If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

Eric Hoffer

#9. To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

Geoffrey Hinton

#10. I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

Geoffrey Hinton

#11. Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

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#12. What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#13. The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

Pico Iyer

#14. You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

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#15. I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

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#16. My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

Gracie Allen

#17. Theres this other half of him i dont know of, its like he is trying it keep it a secret ... if he would just let me inside so i can help

Sarah Dessen

#18. In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

Geoffrey Hinton

#19. In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.

Geoffrey Hinton

#20. I'm a reporter," Rachel said. "I write about the arts, festivals, new projects in the city. What I'm not is some kind of psychic astral traveler! How did I get here? Planning a trip to another dimension?

G.G. Collins

#21. As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.

Geoffrey Hinton