David Hewlett Quotes

I'm a big technology individual. I love science and technology, and anything that has to do with capturing events so that they can be experienced later.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

The best machinery in the world has to be handled by intelligent people.

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.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

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

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

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

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

Some people think technology has the answers.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Something else has happened with computers.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Robots are good at things that are structured.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.