Artificial Intelligence

🇺🇸Marvin Minsky

Mathematics

1927–2016

"Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things."

🇩🇪Joscha Bach

Philosophy

b. 1973

"Long ago, physics and other natural sciences... had become computational."

🇺🇸Lotfi A. Zadeh

Mathematics

1921–2017

"The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them."

🇬🇧Kevin Warwick

Politics

b. 1954

"I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change."

"We define a semantic network as "the collection of all the relationships that concepts have to other concepts, to percepts, to procedures, and to motor mechanisms" of the knowledge."

🇨🇳Robin Li

Technology

b. 1968

"I think it's much severe than what you have experienced in the past year or two for the general economic situation."

🇺🇸John Henry Holland

Science

1929–2015

"Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do."

🇺🇸Eliezer Yudkowsky

Literature

effective altruism

b. 1979

"If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing."

🇺🇸Terry Winograd

Philosophy

b. 1946

"The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction."

🇺🇸John McCarthy (computer scientist)

Science

1927–2011

"One can even conjecture that Lisp owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage."