All Marvin Minsky Quotes
- Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. End
- There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning. Ai Case
- There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. Block
- Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. Computer
- When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation;… Computer
- We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting… Door
- Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed. Bird
- 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 in… Believed
- How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on… Administrative
- 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. On… All
- Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is… Believe
- Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep… Computer
- We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself. Build
- How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them. Funny
- The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect… Agents
- Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have… Billions
- This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to… Arithmetic
- We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was… Action
- Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We… Apart
- If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. All
- It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example,… Analogies
- You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Inspirational
- Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. Acquired
- We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below… Absorption
- It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens. Actually Look