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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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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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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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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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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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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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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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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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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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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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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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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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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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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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.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing but most of the time, we aren't either.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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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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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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