Technological Constraints Quotes

The sheer number of legendary narratives and historically verifiable incidents invites us to revise assumptions about the origins of biological and chemical warfare and its moral and technological constraints.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer. Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

There's a lot that machine learning can't do that humans can do very, very well.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered that energy transitions are subject to time spans and technical constraints that defy their reach.