Conrad Wolfram 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.

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.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

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.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

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

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

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 get better faster than anything else ever.

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

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.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

Machines are what enable the human race to move forward and up, and machines have always been physical,. Computers are the first devices that actually help the mind.

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

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

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 grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

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 power of the computer is starting to spread.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

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.