But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
What would a Martian visitor think to see a human being laugh? It must look truly horrible: the sight of furious gestures,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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