Wernher von Braun Quotes

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Artificial Intelligence is one of those areas where we should be proactive in controlling it rather than reactive. If we are reactive, by the time we will do the necessary things, it will be too late. Robots can do everything better than we [humans] can.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

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.

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.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

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

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.

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 think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.