Accounts Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Marvin Minsky

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

— 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…

— Marvin Minsky

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

— Marvin Minsky

“But there’s a big difference between “impossible” and “hard to imagine.” The first is about it; the second is about you!”

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Marvin Minsky