Koichi Tanaka Quotes

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.

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

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

I love gadgets.

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

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

I think that AI will lead to a low cost and better quality life for millions of people. Like electricity, it's a possibility to build a wonderful society. Also, right now, I don't see a clear path for AI to surpass human-level intelligence.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

I'm quite techy and gadgety.