Tom Golway > Quotes

“Winston Churchill once said "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.". In a broader context, we have shaped our technology to achieve greater productivity and responsiveness and now our technology is shaping our behavior where we are always "on-demand". This has led to a culture where technology plays a greater role in defining who we are.

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― Tom Golway

“Take the time to dream and take the risk to realize your dreams!”
― Tom Golway

“In the post-Covid world, the mathematics of chaos theory will experience a greater relevancy as it is applied across a broader set of science disciplines, especially epidemiology, precision medicine and climate science. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“Always create the need before you show a solution.”
― Tom Golway

“Great leaders do not movitate people, they inspire them.”
― Tom Golway, Planning and Managing Atm Networks

“Blockchain by itself isn't transformational, however it is foundational. As a foundational innovation, Blockchain's value can only be fully realized when the business process is transformed to take advantage of its capabilities, leading to ROI for existing business models and the ability to create value through new ones.”
― Tom Golway, Planning and Managing Atm Networks

“With the current #COVID19 pandemic people are talking about how connected we all are. The world has always been connected. What is changing is the velocity and scale in how events will shape our society. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“Defining a job candidate who is a "cultural fit" is about the person being open minded, looks for the positive in others and knowing that life is too short to focus on differences. When interviewing someone, I ask them to describe something they are proud of and why. The best answers are a challenge they overcame using a unique approach.”
― Tom Golway

“The danger of generative AI is that it lacks the ability to understand misinformation, leading to incorrectly equating correlation with causation based on incomplete/inaccurate data or lack of contextual awareness required to understand sensitive dependencies between data sets. The unintended consequence is technology shaping societal views on politics, culture and science.”
― Tom Golway

“Innovation has always been a catalyst of economic creative destruction, triggering the extinction of certain types of jobs while fostering the genesis of new types of jobs with new types of skills.”
― Tom Golway, Hybrid IT and Intelligent Edge Solutions

“Ideas and creativity are the most dangerous weapons against those who look to suppress freedom. Never underestimate the power of collective, civil discussions with those who hold opposing views.”
― Tom Golway

“Digitization + ubiquitous connectivity + consumer empowerment = enable an environment for disruptive innovation”
― Tom Golway, Planning and Managing Atm Networks

“Our current approach to #AI is no more than finding answers to questions we know to ask. We've not yet found an approach that leads us to #AGI where a machine is answering questions we haven't dreamed of yet." - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“Hyper-connected is used in the context of the Internet. COVID-19 shows we are hyper-connected in the physical world. COVID-19 is a wake-up call for the world to realize how dependent we are on each other. There will always be winners, but life doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“By 2030, some form of Crypto will become the global reserve currency but it will not be based on what exists today. Existing cryptos need to transform or will disappear. Also around 2030 or so, the first Nobel Prize in Economics will be awarded to a Cryptoeconomist.”
― Tom Golway, Planning and Managing Atm Networks

“AI's greatest challenge isn't processing data—it’s accounting for the 'dark matter' of unseen variables that shape our world in unpredictable way.”
― Tom Golway, Entropy Reimagined: Order, Complexity, and Transformation

“Science seeks the undiscovered relying on current measurable knowledge. Philosophy seeks the undiscovered without relying on our current perception of baseline knowledge.”
― Tom Golway

“To me AI becomes interesting when it has awareness of causality, not just correlation. When it can deal with ambiguity and that sensitive dependencies exist outside the bounds of a defined data set which can lead to different outcomes. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“The everyday actions of average citizens have a greater impact on society than any politician. Unfortunately politicians exert a disproportionate amount of influence on the actions of the average citizen. If we all use our own ability to positively influence the people around us, time will erode the negative impact of any politician.”
― Tom Golway

“There is no such thing as an "out of the blue" invention. All new forms of innovation are derived from knowledge gain through previous innovation and the evolving needs of business and society.

In 2030 we will have technologies and solutions that most of us can not yet see, however in 2030 we will see the clear evolutionary link between innovation in 2020 and solutions in 2030.”
― Tom Golway

“The future of higher education will be micro-degrees becoming the norm with people choosing a focused micro-degree rather than a full 4-year degree. 4-Year degrees will focus on a hybrid model, with core requirements being on-line and only one’s major will be in-class.”
― Tom Golway

“When looking for a solution, sometimes the problems you solve along the way have greater impact and value than the solution you are looking for.”
― Tom Golway, Amplifying Human Experience: Enabling Gain-of-Function via AI

“The deeper, philosophical question is does the 1st Amendment apply to AI algorithms. Resolving this is an immediate challenge that needs open dialogue that includes a broad set of disciplines, not just technologists”
― Tom Golway

“AI's pantheistic fallacy assumes that more data equals perfect knowledge, but AI is constrained by the blind spots in its information, leading to flawed decisions in the real world.”
― Tom Golway, Entropy Reimagined: Order, Complexity, and Transformation

“Winston Churchill once said "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us". In a broader context, we have shaped our technology to achieve greater productivity, responsiveness and hyperconnectivity in the global community.

The unintended consequence is that our technology is now playing a greater role in defining who we are by shaping our culture creating an "on-demand" society that is disconnected from our local communities.”
― Tom Golway

“One cannot legislate trust in government. A lack of true leadership is a systemic, party agnostic problem in government, leading to apathy among citizens, regardless of their voter status.”
― Tom Golway

“An enabling force of the Internet is hyperconnectivity in the global community. The unintended consequence is that we are allowing tech to govern who we are; leading to society which is disconnected from our local communities. - Tom Golway 2020”
― Tom Golway

“An issue with current data science methodologies is that the impact of contextual awareness is underestimated since the problem is much more complex. At times we incorrectly equate correlation with causation based on incomplete data or lack of understanding sensitive dependencies between data sets. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“Beyond Serverless is Infrastructure Plasticity where the underlying physical infrastructure is enriched and presented to the application as a Metaverse that is fully optimized to support the application’s service requirements,”
― Tom Golway, Edge to Cloud

“Innovation can be messy, unstructured, and difficult, yet can lead to good and sometimes extraordinary results. The network effect is often thought of as a demand side phenomenon. There is a corresponding effect on the supply side in driving innovation when a critical mass of people with diverse backgrounds work toward a common goal.”
― Tom Golway