Dave Drodge > Dave's Quotes

“Why are we so worried about artificial intelligence? Surely humans are always able to pull the plug? People asked a computer, ‘Is there a God?’ And the computer said, ‘There is now,’ and fused the plug.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“It’s rarely obvious what our data can do, or, when fed into a clever algorithm, just how valuable it can be. Nor, in turn, how cheaply we were bought.”
― Hannah Fry, Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

“Algorithms tuned by an average engineer can outperform those built by the world’s leading experts if the average engineer has access to far more data.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

“Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Don’t anthropomorphize computers—they hate it.”
― Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

“Today, the most resonant ideas are not those that get flashed at the highest number of people but those that become individualized expressions of affiliation and identity among peers.”
― Jeremy Heimans, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You

“The simple truth is that companies can achieve the largest boosts in performance when humans and machines work together as allies, not adversaries, in order to take advantage of each other’s complementary strengths.”
― Paul R. Daugherty, Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

“Eventually, doctors will adopt AI and algorithms as their work partners. This leveling of the medical knowledge landscape will ultimately lead to a new premium: to find and train doctors who have the highest level of emotional intelligence.”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“Ray Kurzweil—the eccentric inventor, futurist, and guru-in-residence at Google—envisions a radical future in which humans and machines have fully merged. We will upload our minds to the cloud, he predicts, and constantly renew our bodies through intelligent nanobots released into our bloodstream. Kurzweil predicts that by 2029 we will have computers with intelligence comparable to that of humans (i.e., AGI), and that we will reach the singularity by 2045.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

“The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust”
― Eric Topol, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

“Good decisions are critical to well-functioning societies:”
― Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

“The ultimate gift, in our digital age, is a CEO who has the storytelling talent to capture the imagination of the markets while surrounding themselves with people who can show incremental progress against that vision each day.”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“three platforms: Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Registering, iterating, and monetizing its audience is the heart of each platform’s business. It’s what the most valuable man-made things ever created (their algorithms) are designed to do.”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“A study found that on Facebook, the top descriptors to complete the phrase “My husband is . . .” are “the best,” “my best friend,” “amazing,” “the greatest,” and “so cute.” On Google, under the cloak of anonymity, one of the top five ways to complete that phrase is also “amazing.” The other four: “a jerk,” “annoying,” “gay,” and “mean.”10”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“The digital age is Heraclitus on steroids: change is a daily constant. In almost every professional environment, we are expected to use and master tools that did not exist a decade ago, or even last year. For better or worse (and frankly, it is often for worse), organizations have access, essentially, to infinite amounts of data, and what might as well be an infinite variety of ways to sort through and act on that data. At the same time, ideas can be turned into reality at unprecedented speed. The thing Amazon, Facebook, and no less hot firms, including Zara, have in common is they are agile (the new-economy term for fast).”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“It is conventional wisdom that Steve Jobs put “a dent in the universe.” No, he didn’t. Steve Jobs, in my view, spat on the universe. People who get up every morning, get their kids dressed, get them to school, and have an irrational passion for their kids’ well-being, dent the universe. The world needs more homes with engaged parents, not a better fucking phone.”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“Of the hundreds of companies pouring resources into AI research, let’s return to the seven that have emerged as the new giants of corporate AI research—Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent.”
― Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

“Being a citizen is an active state; being a consumer is passive.”
― Roger McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

“Most [organizations] think the key to growth is developing new technologies and products. But often this is not so. To unlock the next wave of growth, companies must embed these innovations in a disruptive new business model.”
― Peter H. Diamandis, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

“It turns out that Republicans can accept a batshit insane candidate, so long as it’s consistent insanity.”
― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

“Facebook is no longer just a company, I told them. It’s a doorway into the minds of the American people, and Mark Zuckerberg left that door wide open for Cambridge Analytica, the Russians, and who knows how many others. Facebook is a monopoly, but its behavior is more than a regulatory issue—it’s a threat to national security. The concentration of power that Facebook enjoys is a danger to American democracy.”
― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

“On a voyage of exploration, how can you price what you’ll find before you even set sail?”
― Margaret Heffernan, Uncharted: How to Map the Future

“The only way we will solve the problems that we face is if we can find a way to balance the power of the market with the power of inclusive institutions, and purpose-driven businesses committed to the health of the society could play an important role in making this happen.”
― Rebecca Henderson, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

“Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes’ worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download.”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

“Melting permafrost is also releasing ancient microbes that today’s humans have never been exposed to—and as a result have no resistance”
― Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

“For change to become transformational, our change in mindset must manifest in our actions.”
― Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

“Making things (cement, steel, plastic) 31% Plugging in (electricity) 27% Growing things (plants, animals) 19% Getting around (planes, trucks, cargo ships) 16% Keeping warm and cool (heating, cooling, refrigeration) 7%”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need