Max Euwe Quotes

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

The machine conceals the machinations.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.