Bill James Quotes

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.

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

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

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.

Whether you're looking at manufacturing and the use of robotics or the knowledge industries, they need computer programmers.

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

Everything that humans can do a machine can do.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

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.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

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've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

I just write mechanical things.

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

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

The computer is a moron.

The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.

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.

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

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.