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Theorems often tell us complex...

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or 'mathematics envy.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

How hard is it to build an int...

How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

The brain happens to be a meat...

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Anyone could learn Lisp in one...

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Will robots inherit the earth?...

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

An ethicist is someone who see...

An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Within 10 years computers won'...

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

A computer is like a violin. Y...

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

In general, we're least aware ...

In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

General fiction is pretty much...

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

You don't understand anything ...

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Minds are simply what brains d...

Minds are simply what brains do.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

In general we are least aware ...

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

You don't understand anything ...

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

No computer has ever been desi...

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

It would be as useless to perc...

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Societies need rules that make...

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

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