Artificial intelligence Quote by Joseph Weizenbaum

“It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.”

— Greg Egan

“The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly.”

— Carlos Bueno

“I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn’t just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software…

— Julie Holland

“The whole thinking process is still rather mysterious to us, but I believe that the attempt to make a thinking machine will help us…

— Andrew Hodges

“US senator had asked if it were true that computers “will soon be able to secretly interpret a person’s brainwaves.”

— Leslie Berlin

“Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.”

— R. Curtis Venture

“Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit…

— Orson Scott Card

“Practicality rules our perceptions. To survive, our tiny brains need to tame the blizzard of delusion generator information that threatens to overwhelm us. Our…

— Scott Adams

“She had discovered long ago that you could use a computer without understanding how it worked. Just as you could use an automobile, vacuum…

— Michael Crichton

No greater invention was ever devised for creating the delusion of productivity than the personal computer, except for religion.

— Rock Cowles

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole…

— Seymour Papert

“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a…

— Jaron Lanier