P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

The day may come when we will replace politicians with computers. Judging from some of the reasoning of politicians I've seen over the years, I know I would sooner take the logic of a computer. The machine may suffer the same lack of intelligence as some politicians, but at least there is consistency in its idiocy.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

Imagine if we can just talk to our computers and have it understand, 'Please schedule a meeting with Bob for next week.' Or if each child could have a personalized tutor. Or if self-driving cars could save all of us hours of driving.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

Computers have changed the world of chess.