Quotation by

Richard Dawkins

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkins

Computers

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Richard Dawkins suggests that if a computer were to defeat the best human chess player, it would show that machines can surpass human intelligence in complex tasks. This outcome would remind people not to be overly proud of their abilities and recognize that humans are not always the smartest beings.

More by this author

All quotes by Richard Dawkins →

More quotes about Computers

See all →

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm tra…

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.