An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense.… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
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… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
“But there’s a big difference between “impossible” and “hard to imagine.” The first is about it; the second is about you!” — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. A purely random… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
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… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs.… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share
