Newton Lee: Humanity

Newton Lee is American computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.
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“Denying the existence of God the Creator is like an artificial intelligent machine doubting the existence of human inventors.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“To err is human. Yet it is a sign of how far computer science has come that to err is also artificially intelligent”

Newton Lee

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“Conspiracy theories abound in many tragedies and injustices, but the greatest conspiracy of all is how human beings treat one another and other living things on Earth.”

Newton Lee

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“God gives life to human beings who in turn give birth to artificial intelligence.”

Newton Lee

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“May we all come to realize that education and the humanities should be valued for nurturing our minds and society as a whole, and not only as a means to build future careers.”

Newton Lee

ACM Computers in Entertainment (Volume 5, Issue 2, May 2007)

“To err is human. AI software modeled after humans will inevitably make mistakes. It is fine as long as the software learns from its errors and improves itself, which is something that humans ought to learn from AI. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, wrote in "Case of Voluntary Ignorance" in Collected Essays (1959): "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“The real solution to human longevity will likely involve both traditional and alternative medicine, scientific and philosophical problem-solving, as well as big data analysis and human intuition.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“What will it take to rally all peoples and nations to unite in the name of humanity? An all-out alien invasion or imminent mass extinction? Perhaps a gentler proposal like a Human Heritage Month would help to raise awareness that we are all human beings living together on the same beautiful planet marred by undue human conflicts and selfishness.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Learning is an innate human behavior. A healthy baby is happy and excited to learn to speak, play and express itself. Why should learning stop being fun? The human race cannot survive without continuous learning. Let us impart the enthusiasm and creativity of learning in the classrooms.”

Newton Lee

Virginia Tech Collegiate Times (November 1990)

“If the meaning of life is futility, human longevity loses its luster.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Mahatma Gandhi once said, "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." Besides, two wrongs do not make a right. President Obama is right: Peace is the only path to true security.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“It would make a positive difference in world security and counterterrorism by setting our mind on pursuing peaceful solutions rather than escalating the war on terror. Mahatma Gandhi once said, "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“Human beings will never evolve to higher creatures if we are constantly restricted by rules and regulations.”

Newton Lee

The Nightmares of a Journalist (1991)

“Human-machine symbiosis is the workforce of the future.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“It may come as a surprise to many people that the human genome contains human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) that are linked to cancer, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, and more. Gene editing offers a new hope to eradicating many deadly hereditary diseases.”

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“IBM scientist Murray Campbell from the Deep Blue team revealed that the “extremely human move” in the chess game against Gary Kasparov was actually a bug in the program that was later fixed. What an opportune moment for a computer to evince that “To err is human!””

Newton Lee

Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016

“Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.”

Newton Lee

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014

“Terrorism is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

“The meaning of life for human beings is to serve one another for the survival of humanity and the advancement of civilization.”

Newton Lee

ACM Computers in Entertainment (Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2005)

“The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.”

Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015