Tobias Lutke Quotes

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

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

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

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

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Something else has happened with computers.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

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.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.