Jon Oringer Quotes

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

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.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

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.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

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

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

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

The day I woke up and Reddit was working on its own was just the most incredible feeling.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

The computer is a moron.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.