Philip K. Dick Quotes

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

I do miss George Bush. Compared to these teabaggers and the people who are pandering to them, he looks like a professor.

If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love

I've seen up close the benefits and drawbacks of kids working with super-strong chess programs in their training, and they definitely think differently than past generations thanks to this alien influence. While we are making our machines more intelligent, they are also changing how we think.

I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.