Quotes by Marvin Minsky

To be considered an “EXPERT”, one needs a large amount of knowledge of only a relatively few variety. In contrast, an ordinary person’s “common sense” involves a much larger variety of different types of knowledge – and this requires more complicated management systems. It is easier to acquire spec…

We are least aware of what out minds do best.

There is no singularly real world of thought; each mind evolves its own internal universe.

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!

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!

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 exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

To be considered an “EXPERT”, one needs a large amount of knowledge of only a relatively few variety. In contrast, an ordinary person’s “common sense” involves a much larger variety of different types of knowledge – and this requires more complicated management systems. It is easier to acquire spec…