Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Quotes

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

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.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.