Marvin Minsky

Knowledge is not a fixed thing; it's always provisional.

Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

I bet the human brain is basically a computer.

To build a machine that thinks, we need to understand how thinking works.

Common sense is not so common in computers yet.

Our minds are full of theories that are wrong, but we don't know it.

AI is whatever hasn't been done yet.

The future of AI is not in simulating the brain but in surpassing it.

We are all machines, but we are very complicated machines.

Learning is not just accumulating facts; it's building models.

Robots don't need to look like humans to be intelligent.

The society of mind is what makes us human.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems in new ways.

Computers will make us rethink what it means to be human.

No program can ever be a cure for ignorance.

Thinking is a process of trying small ideas and seeing what works.

The mind is a collection of agents working together.

We need to design machines that can learn from experience.

Humor is the recognition of incongruity.