David Patterson People Quotations

She's only 16 and younger people do better in rehabilitation because they are still growing, ... Samantha is a fighter, and I know she'll keep going.

Right now, it takes a large company employing hundreds of really smart people to support Internet services. Our goal with this center is to develop technology that eliminates the need for such a large organization, opening up innovation opportunities for small groups or even individual entrepreneurs. We can help do this by applying statistical machine learning - the same technology used successfully in the recent autonomous vehicle grand challenge - to the development of computer systems.

Our goal is to create technology that will enable individual inventors and entrepreneurs to provide new services of value similar to large Internet services people use every day. The companies benefit by witnessing ideas in pre-competitive technologies at the early stages of development, and they will help point out the real-world obstacles that must be overcome.

Most of the positions being outsourced are at the bottom of the totem pole, such as call-center jobs, but those jobs, in turn, lend themselves to automation, which means that the people doing them could themselves be replaced.

Everything down here is something people got in trouble with,

The worst thing that happens is someone comes out of the bullpen (an area in which prisoners are held to await court proceedings). Someone comes down here. Someone leaves the door open. Someone gets a weapon and they go back upstairs, ... I wouldn't want to be the guy who didn't do something and then, when something happens, people would say, 'Why didn't you do anything?'

It's not trivial. The hard part is building something that people can use and having it scale to millions of people.

It is very satisfying. It's really a good feeling to be able to take these people back home to where they belong.

Government funding for this type of research has fallen off, which means that companies have to step up in helping produce the next generation of technology leaders in information technology. There are a lot of bright young people that deserve support, but can't find it elsewhere.