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

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

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

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

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

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

But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you!

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

I bet the human brain is a kludge

Eventually, robots will make everything.

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

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

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

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

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

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

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.

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

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

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

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience ... How would they know?

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.