We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors,… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
