113 Quotes About Computer-science

AI research can have irreversible repercussions in the life of the human species, so we must tread cautiously.

Computation is not the same as thought and emulation is not the same as imagination.

AI can be programed to imitate human behavior only, but it can't be programmed to feel the emotions that make the humans behave the way they do.

[The study of prime numbers] becoming pivotal in cryptography and online security. As it happens, it is much easier to multiply primes together than to factor them back out. In modern encryption, secret primes known only to the sender and recipient get multiplied together to create huge composite numbers that can be transmitted publicly without fear, since factoring the product would take eavesdropper way too long to be worth attempting.

The pipeline assumes a passive flow of women (and men) from one stage to the next culminating in a scientific career.

If a machine ever gains awareness, it will be not due to our careful programming, but due to an unforeseeable anomaly.

No technology that's connected to the internet is unhackable.

Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.

Thinking about small things every day from today will lead you to rise to the ranks of Donald Knuth and Alan Turing in a few years.