Sam Altman Quotes

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Something else has happened with computers.

Computing is becoming universal.

Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more., Moreover, they will be far more versatile than present commercial machines, so that they may readily be adapted for a wide variety of operations. They will be controlled by a control card or film, they will select their own data and manipulate it in accordance with the instructions thus inserted, they will perform complex arithmetical computations at exceedingly high speeds, and they will record results in such form as to be readily available for distribution or for later further manipulation.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.