Flume Quotes

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

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

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

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.

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

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.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

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

Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

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

The role of humans as the most important factor of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of the horse in agricultural production.