Philip Emeagwali Quotes

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

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

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

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

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

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

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Something else has happened with computers.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

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

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

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.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

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

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Background updating is absolutely the future.