“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensHandsMovingLevelsProgressComputerTestsPreparedPassingVersionsPassingsPredictionsWatsonAdvent Book:How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Source: How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.” MindHumansLongHas BeensMadeStillsTurnsHeavenSpaceProgressModernCenturyTaughtComputerIdealsLogicMachinesSymbolsManipulationHuman MindFormalObscurePlatoTwentieth CenturyFractionsTaught UsTokensIntangibleIneffablePlatonicLong RoadPlato S Author:Allen Newell
“No one knows what the right algorithm is, but it gives us hope that if we can discover some crude approximation of whatever this algorithm is and implement it on a computer, that can help us make a lot of progress.” IfsKnowsGivingHelpingProgressComputerCrudeAlgorithmsApproximation Author:Andrew Ng
“And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.” TryingProgressTomorrowComputerDifficultyWorking ItBlockage Author:Ward Cunningham
“We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?” HumansSchoolLanguageResponsibilityProgressFrontsComputerAspectTreatsBasesMathematicsBasics Author:Michal Rovner
“If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.” PeopleIfsWholeHelpingProgressPlansGroupsTypeDiseaseComputerModelsMedicineInsightMathDrivenInstituteComputer ScienceSeattleMalariaModellingPolio Author:Bill Gates
“People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.” PeopleTryingKindProblemLanguageNaturalProgressComputer Author:Stephen Wolfram
“People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.” PeopleHumansMeanArtImportantSoulRolesProgressInternetBalanceComputerGiantsEtcCravingElectronicsGreat Progress Author:Mstislav Rostropovich
“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.” DreamRealityActionOrderSocialNaturalProgressRevolutionComputerPermanentRevolutionaryGapsDictatorshipDictatorMenaceTotality Author:Gilles Deleuze
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” SuccessLeadershipLinesTechnologyProgressBuildingTrustComputerWeightCodeProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesMeasuringAircraftComputer LanguageDevelopersSoftware DesignComputer ProgrammersSoftware DevelopmentProgramming FunnyComputer SystemsComputer HackingCode Quality Author:Bill Gates
“You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.” CountryAbleScienceProgressInfluenceComputerAppreciateAppreciationStatisticsEnginesIncapableEstimatingFuture Progress Author:Charles Babbage