Marvin Minsky

"We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself."

"Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer."

"In today's computer science curricula … almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and…"

"Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders."

"When you "get an idea," or "solve a problem," or have a "memorable experience," you create what we shall call a K-line. This K-line gets connected to those "mental agencies" that were actively involve…"

"We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a d…"

"A memory should induce a state through which we see current reality as an instance of the remembered event — or equivalently, see the past as an instance of the present. ...the system can perform a co…"

"Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug."