Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
Where Joe was more vocal and emotional whereas Chuck was very reserved. But, both of them executed great strategy and both of them demanded a lot of their players.
Everything about 'Adventure Time' is the purest form of kid's play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn't pretend to be real. That was the great thing about 'Pee Wee's Playhouse'; it ex...
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.
I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.
I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.
