Freeman Dyson Quotes

You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

We should not place artificial limits on the intellectual work of our gifted scientists to explore new technologies, to understand what is possible …

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

In this era, we have more choice than any group of people ever. When you are out at night, anyone in the universe can contact you instantly. Think about how crazy that is compared to even a few decades ago.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what separates the show [ Westworld] is that it's an existential drama. It's an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we're exploring is stuff that we're working at, right now. All of this is not that far away. It's taking a look at humanity and the state that we're in now and what would happen, if we kept on going the way that we're going and we created this artificial intelligence.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.