Jason Fried Quotes

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

Google seems to be more intelligent than some people.

Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

The computer is a moron.

Human intelligence trumps electronic or signals intelligence every time.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know some really intelligent fish. But they cannot know what humans know and are incapable of inflicting as much damage.

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

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

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

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.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.