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

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

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

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

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot. — E.B. White

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

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre. — Seymour Cassel

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure. — Hyman Minsky

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. — Marvin Minsky

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

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

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

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it! — Minsky M.A.

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

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

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. — Marvin Minsky

I bet the human brain is a kludge — Marvin Minsky

Eventually, robots will make everything. — Marvin Minsky

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

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

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

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

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

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 Minsky

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

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement. — Arthur Hiller

Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits. — Hyman Minsky

[N]ever stop being yourself. — Ruth Minsky Sender

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

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 Minsky

Logic no more explains how we think than grammar explains how we speak" [Minsky]. Logic — Ali Almossawi

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

The brain happens to be a meat machine. — Marvin Minsky

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. - MARVIN MINSKY — Ray Kurzweil

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. — Marvin Minsky

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