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… — 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
