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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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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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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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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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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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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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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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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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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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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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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Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
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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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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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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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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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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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