Laurie Anderson Quotes

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

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

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Human intelligence trumps electronic or signals intelligence every time.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

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.

Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

I think human intelligence is the only one that will actually tell you intent.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We're using those things – but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

I think that we have to be very careful and get back into the loop, get back to nature. Get back to God and not let the technology send us somewhere that we're going to regret.

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.