Marvin Minsky
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"Marvin Lee Minsky" is an United States/American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.

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

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

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

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

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.