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

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

Minds are simply what brains do..

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….

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

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

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry..

Logic doesn't apply to the real world..

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself..

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets..

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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..

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….