“Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking...” — Luis von Ahn Quote

“Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?”

“When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure.”

“As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.”

“By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.”

“I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.”

“Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.”