Neill Blomkamp Quotes

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

People want bigger, bolder answers to the problems that exist. I felt, as leader, 'My analysis is big; are the answers big enough?'

Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way.

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

Seek people who seek solutions.

The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?