Masayoshi Son Quotes

There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there's a really long tail of usage on client devices.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

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

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The computer is a very regular structure. It's very uniform. It's got a bunch of memory, and it's got a little element that computes bits of memory and combines them with each other and puts them back somewhere. It's a very simple thing.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

The brain has about ten thousand parameters for every second of experience. We do not really have much experience about how systems like that work or how to make them be so good at finding structure in data.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.

I have always been convinced that the only way to get artificial intelligence to work is to do the computation in a way similar to the human brain. That is the goal I have been pursuing. We are making progress, though we still have lots to learn about how the brain actually works.

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy