Simone Giertz 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

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

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.

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

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.

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

I just write mechanical things.

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.

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

Computing is becoming universal.

Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.