Marvin Minsky

The mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to build.

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

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all.

Common sense is not a collection of facts, but a collection of ways to represent and use facts.

The problem is not that computers are too smart, but that we are not smart enough to make them smarter.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

The question is not whether machines can think, but whether men can.

A computer is not a brain, but it can be a model of a brain.

We won't have any 'artificial intelligence' until we have 'artificial stupidity.'

The greatest discoveries are often made by people who are not afraid to be wrong.

Intelligence is not a single thing, but a collection of many different abilities.

The brain is a machine, and we can understand it by building models of it.

The best way to understand something is to try to build it.

Learning is not just about acquiring facts, but about acquiring new ways to think about facts.

The future of AI is not about making machines that are like us, but about making machines that can help us be more like ourselves.

We are not trying to make machines that are conscious, but machines that can do conscious-like things.

The biggest mistake we can make is to assume that intelligence is a monolithic entity.

Our minds are not single, unitary things, but societies of smaller agents.

The more you know about how the mind works, the more you can improve your own thinking.

The real challenge of AI is not to build a machine that can think, but to build a machine that can learn to think.