Luc Ferrari Quotes

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

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.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

The two things I'm most excited about are self-driving cars and speech. Speech doesn't sound like that much, but it's one of those technologies with the potential to change everything. Steve Jobs didn't invent the touch screen. He just made it work very well, and that's changed everything.

I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

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

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

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

I would love a robot butler.

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.