117 Quotes by Marvin Minsky

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.