David Marr

"A representation is a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this. And I shall call the result of using a repr…"

"The primitives of a representation are the most elementary units of shape information available in a representation."

"To understand the relationship between behavior and brain one has to begin by defining the function, or computational goal, of a complete behavior. Only then can a neuroscientist determine how the bra…"

"In order to understand bird flight, we have to understand aerodynamics; only then does the structure of feathers and the different shapes of bird's wings make sense."

"The abstract properties of this mapping are defined precisely, and its appropriateness and adequacy for the task at hand are demonstrated."

"Vision is the process of discovering from images what is present in the world, and where it is."

"we can experimentally isolate a process and show that it can still work well, then it cannot require complex interaction with other parts of vision and can therefore be understood relatively well on i…"

"The critical act in formulating computational theories turns out to be the discovery of valid constraints on the way the world is structured -- constraints that provide sufficient information to allow…"