Marvin Minsky Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

  Marvin Minsky

  Psychology, Roles, Next

• 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

  Technology, Computer

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

  Marvin Minsky

  Years, Pet, Computer

• Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

  Marvin Minsky

  Goal, Language, Computer

  Turing Award Lectures Year Awarded 1969, dl.acm.org. 2007.

• When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

  Marvin Minsky

  Vision, Mit, Excitement

  "HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality". Book by David G. Stork, 1997.

• 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 pets.

  Marvin Minsky

  Pet, Lucky, Might

  Life Magazine, November 20, 1970.

• 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 becoming more obsolete every minute.

  Marvin Minsky

  Technology, Years, Able

• 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 argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

  Marvin Minsky

  Typewriters, Trying, Sound

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