Paul Allen Quotes

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

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

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more., Moreover, they will be far more versatile than present commercial machines, so that they may readily be adapted for a wide variety of operations. They will be controlled by a control card or film, they will select their own data and manipulate it in accordance with the instructions thus inserted, they will perform complex arithmetical computations at exceedingly high speeds, and they will record results in such form as to be readily available for distribution or for later further manipulation.

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.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Artificial intelligence is always 20 years away.

Computers have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

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.