Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
Marvin Minsky
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Whatever
Mind
Something
Sees
Somebody
Wrong
More quotes by Marvin Minsky
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
Marvin Minsky
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.
Marvin Minsky
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.
Marvin Minsky
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
Marvin Minsky
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.
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
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.
Marvin Minsky
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.
Marvin Minsky
Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
Marvin Minsky
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
Marvin Minsky
Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
Marvin Minsky
How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
Marvin Minsky
We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
Marvin Minsky
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.
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
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.
Marvin Minsky
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
Marvin Minsky
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
Marvin Minsky
I bet the human brain is a kludge
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