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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?
Marvin Minsky
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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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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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Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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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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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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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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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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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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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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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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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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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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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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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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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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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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