Techie Ponderer Gifts

Is There Life Before Death?

'My computer doesn't understand me!'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Space is curved and time is relative? Yeah, OK...I'm calling you a cab right now, buddy."

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

"Quantum Physics"? How am I going to learn all of this stuff? A bit at a time?

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

'Einstein's blackboard as he left it'

"What if Newton came up with a different idea from a fallen apple."

'At least I don't have his life.'

"What's an imagination? It was something kids used to enjoy before they invented video games."

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

Idle parts

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

"My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing!"

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

Progress?

are you so alienated from any real form of community that you can no longer distinguish between belonging and conforming?

"What if it's smarter than us?"

'It's not working because it claims it can think and has decided not to.'

"Of course it sends your message digitally. If you want analogue we'll have to saddle up old Bessie."

Robot Attack in Bath

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

"Well I think the Real question is..."

"Genetic engineering has made us disease resistant."

CREEPY AF AI

"An equation for your thoughts?"

'It seems like a good invention now, but someday there'll be millions of these things, all crashing into each other.'

'Revolution? I thought you creatures said you wanted Evolution!'

'Is it me or do these new led street lights wash out the reds and yellows?'

'Your cat seems to have thought outside the box, Mr. Schrodinger.'

"Then on a lark, I made the foolish mistake of writing a program that did what I did."

"They're some kind of robot, perhaps artificially intelligent."

"One thing I'll say for us, Meyer--we never stooped to popularizing science."

Bertrand Russell