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

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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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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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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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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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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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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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To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, What caused the Universe to exist?
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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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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
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