John McCarthy

AI is a field that requires creativity and innovation.

The goal of AI is to make machines that can act intelligently in the world.

We need to develop robust and reliable AI systems.

LISP is a language that grows with you.

The internet has the potential to democratize knowledge.

Artificial intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

If you want to understand Lisp, you have to understand that the world is made of lists.

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

In AI, we're not trying to make machines that think like humans, we're trying to make machines that think.

A computer program is a formal statement of a procedure.

The problem with AI is that it's always just around the corner.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

The difference between a good program and a bad program is that a good program is written by a good programmer.

We need to make computers that are smart enough to tell us what they don't know.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

AI is not just about making machines that are intelligent, it's about making machines that are useful.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The goal of AI is to understand intelligence, not just to build intelligent machines.

Lisp has all the good ideas, but they're all in the wrong place.