Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Hawkins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American inventor Jeff Hawkins.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Jeffrey Hawkins is a founder of Palm Computing and Handspring where he was one of the creators of the PalmPilot and Treo, respectively. He has since turned to work on neuroscience, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005, where he leads a team in efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex and enable machine intelligence technology based on brain theory. Hawkins is the author of On Intelligence which explains his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain. In March 2021, he released his second book, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, which details the discoveries he and the Numenta team made that led to the Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence.

American - Inventor | Born: June 1, 1957

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At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

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A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

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You and I are streaming data engines.

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Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

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You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

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Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

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If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

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Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

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In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

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Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

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Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.

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And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

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Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

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I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

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It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

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We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

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Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

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Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

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Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

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