Barry Zito Quotes

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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.

My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

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.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.