This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem – and in particular to perform integration – you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities – but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the course of our everyday lives. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I’m one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving techniques are represented and put together, and not so much on the fine details. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures – most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one’s nature. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. Marvin Minsky Read Quote
