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> [You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/you-don-t-understand-anything-until-you-learn-it-more-than-one-way/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

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## More by Marvin Minsky

> [Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/theorems-often-tell-us-complex-truths-about-the-simple-things-but/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/we-wanted-to-solve-robot-problems-and-needed-some-vision-action/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/we-rarely-recognize-how-wonderful-it-is-that-a-person-can-traverse-an/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/each-practitioner-thinks-there-s-one-magic-way-to-get-a-machine-to-be/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/to-say-that-the-universe-exists-is-silly-because-it-says-that-the/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/you-don-t-understand-anything-until-you-learn-it-more-than-one-way/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [ A couple of hundred years from now, maybe \[science fiction writers\] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/a-couple-of-hundred-years-from-now-maybe-science-fiction-writers/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/all-intelligent-problem-solvers-are-subject-to-the-same-ultimate/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [“But there’s a big difference between “impossible” and “hard to imagine.” The first is about it; the second is about you!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/but-there-s-a-big-difference-between-impossible-and-hard-to-imagine/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/but-the-big-feature-of-human-level-intelligence-is-not-what-it-does/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/what-magical-trick-makes-us-intelligent-the-trick-is-that-there-is-no/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. A purely random…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/everything-including-that-which-happens-in-our-brains-depends-on/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/i-believed-in-realism-as-summarized-by-john-mccarthy-s-comment-to-the/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/by-the-way-it-was-his-simulations-that-helped-out-in-jurassic-park/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

> [If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-minsky/if-you-just-have-a-single-problem-to-solve-then-fine-go-ahead-and-use/)

[Marvin Minsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-minsky/)

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