Marvin Minsky

The biggest problems require the most creative solutions.

The mind is not a black box; it's a complex system that we can eventually understand.

The more we understand about intelligence, the more we can enhance it.

Curiosity is the engine of discovery.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes, just learn from them.

The brain is a collection of tricks, not a single grand design.

The most profound insights often come from the simplest observations.

The future of AI is not about replacing humans, but about empowering them.

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

A computer is not a machine that thinks. It is a machine that helps us think.

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

The problem is not to make computers think like people, but to make people think like people.

We're not trying to make machines that are like people. We're trying to make machines that are like people's minds.

The mind is a society of agents.

Each mental agent is itself a society of smaller agents.

The world is not made of facts, but of stories.

The greatest danger in AI is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

We need to teach children how to think, not what to think.

The future of AI is not about building super-intelligent robots, but about understanding how our own minds work.

What we call 'thinking' is really a lot of different processes, working together.