Lisa Joy Quotes

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

They have a life-sized Cylon on the 'Caprica' set.

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

We are living in a science fiction world.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

I used to watch 'The Jetsons' growing up. I used to think that this woman, Rosie, the robot housekeeper, was going to exist. I think we're far away from that happening.

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.

J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are brilliant people, so I knew it [Westworld] was going to be amazing.

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

There's a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big tech franchises. But in terms of cultural impact, perhaps we are at peak Valley.

The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.

IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't need wind tunnels anymore, for example. You can run experiments more quickly.

Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Terminator' is a reflection of how the world is changing.

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.