Brad Feld Quotes

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

I love software and I love technology.

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

The best machinery in the world has to be handled by intelligent people.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

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

'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

I'm an electronic manipulator. Most people think J.J. Cale, he's organic. There ain't nothing organic about me.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.