James Gleick Quotes

I love software and I love technology.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

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

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

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?

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

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.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Something else has happened with computers.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Computing is becoming universal.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

The tools and technologies we've developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.

The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets.

Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they'd never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.

I'm excited about all technology.

Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.