Donald Knuth Quotes

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

As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies.

Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

Some people think technology has the answers.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

Smart CEOs should be thinking about AI and its impact on their respective business.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

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

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

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

The future is here.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

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

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

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