Neill Blomkamp Quotes

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Everything depends on whether the technological disposition is allowed to proceed to its self-augmenting limits, or whether it can be restricted and brought under intellectual, spiritual, moral, and political rule.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the opportunity of making the world a little different.

I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

When your heart is in the right place and you give your best, nothing can go wrong.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.

We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.

I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

In deep learning, the algorithms we use now are versions of the algorithms we were developing in the 1980s, the 1990s. People were very optimistic about them, but it turns out they didn't work too well.

But while I'm realistic about our challenges, I'm optimistic about our future. There are a few things, and if we do them, we're going to have the greatest era in our history. And I have detailed what those things are specifically.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.

maybe it's that we are all so starved for something good to happen that we want to be a part of it.

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.