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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

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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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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
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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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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
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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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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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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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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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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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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the real meaning of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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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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