John von Neumann Quotes

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

Something else has happened with computers.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

You're going to have driverless trucks hurtling down the highway at 80 miles an hour before you will have robots can clean up after your kid or fold his clothes.

We live in a world that relies on technology.

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.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

Weird how fast technology changes.