Roger Penrose Quotes

To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

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

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.

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

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

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

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Apple has an opening to say, 'The tools we are selling to you will enable you to do things rather than do things for you.' Google's vision is tools that will do things for you.