Florian Schneider Quotes

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.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

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

Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.

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

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

I want to be a machine.

Any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done by a machine.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them