Sebastian Thrun Quotes

When technological advancement can go up so exponentially, I do think there's a risk of losing sight of the fact that tech should serve humanity, not the other way around.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

The public hears that we're Number 1 in science and they want to know why that fact isn't making their lives better.

All it takes is an understanding that humans, not buildings come first when designing a city.

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

I think it's amazing when technology is used in a smart way, but the responsibility that comes with it... I think there's a lot of technology that we're using that we haven't thought through. It's a bit scary to put all your trust in technology and to think that that's what going to save us. We're going to have to make some compromises.

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

I always believe in using technology for a positive result.

As we continue to apply AI to new fields, ethical dilemmas will arise and the answers will not be clearly defined.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

From my point of view, we have the two communities: the tech community on one side and the rather social-scientific, philosophical community on the other side. We have, from my impression, a disconnect between the two sides.

So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.