Analogies Quote by Marvin Minsky

“...it is often the case that when things get really hairy, you want an experienced human being in control. The preference for algorithms over…

— Matthew B. Crawford

For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the…

— Henri Poincare

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

— Allen Newell

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your…

— RZA

Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical text, one…

— IU?. I. Manin

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to…

— Siobhan Dowd

It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

— Denis Leary

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation…

— Greg Graffin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

— Walter Benjamin