Luis von Ahn Quotes

[Captchas] are not only annoying, but they kill 10 seconds of your time.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.

The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

We can find no successful terrorist attack that would have been prevented by the availability of a lawful decryption access technology ...

Text input is certainly useful, but images and speech are a much more natural way for humans to express their queries. Infants learn to see and speak well before they learn to type. The same is true of human evolution - we've had spoken language for a long time compared to written language, which is a relatively recent development.

Safety is not just about trying really hard and being really careful. You have to design technology that makes it possible for a computer to be safe.

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.