Barry Barish Quotes

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.

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

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

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.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Some people think technology has the answers.

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

Technology is fascinating.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

I think the next massive wave of value creation will be when you can get a manufacturing company or agriculture devices company or a health care company to develop dozens of AI solutions to help their businesses.

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

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

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.