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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

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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
Inquiry
Acquire
Certainty

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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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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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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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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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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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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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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.
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Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
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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, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
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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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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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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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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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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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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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