One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry..

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way..

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

Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days..

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either..

In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best..

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really be….

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But….

Minds are simply what brains do..

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men..

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the a….

The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to see….

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a….

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and except….

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways..

Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pet….

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've….

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least..

Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus..

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