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Marvin Minsky Inspirational Quotes (40)

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By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
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How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
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Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
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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!
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
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What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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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.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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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.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
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