Brian Eno Quotes

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

The computer is a moron.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

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.

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.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

A calculator is a tool for humans to do math more quickly and accurately than they could ever do by hand; similarly, AI computers are tools for us to perform tasks too difficult or expensive for us to do on our own, such as analyzing large data sets or keeping up to date on medical research.

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

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

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.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

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

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.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

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