Seth Lloyd Quotes

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

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.

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.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

It seemed really amazing that you could write a few lines of code and have it learn to do interesting things.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

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.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

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

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

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

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.