Quotes about "Artificial Intelligence & Ethics"

In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions. ”

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations. ”

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. ”

Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first. ”

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless. ”

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. ”

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ”

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. ”

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper. ”

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals. ”