Isaac Asimov Quotes

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

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

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines.

It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

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.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.

I used to watch 'The Jetsons' growing up. I used to think that this woman, Rosie, the robot housekeeper, was going to exist. I think we're far away from that happening.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.