70 Quotes by John McCarthy

... as soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.