I bet the human brain is a kludge

- Marvin Minsky

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

- Marvin Minsky

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.

- Marvin Minsky

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…

- Marvin Minsky

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

- Marvin Minsky

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

- Marvin Minsky

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

- Marvin Minsky

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

- Marvin Minsky

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…

- Marvin Minsky