Jeff Hawkins Quotes

• We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Talking, Brain, Body

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• Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

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  Confusion, Understanding, Confusing

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• The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

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  Keys, Artificial Intelligence, Representation

  "Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company" by Quentin Hardy, bits.blogs.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

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  Our World, Understanding, Looks

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• Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

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  Creativity, Average, Practice

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• Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose.

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  Mean, Firsts, Persons

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• Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or sound. You perceive it because your model says this is how the world is, and those patterns invoke the model. It's hard to believe, but it really is true.

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  Believe, Light, Perception

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• I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

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  Two, Design, Brain

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• Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

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  Brain, Foundation, Doe

  Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.89, Macmillan

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• And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

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  Believe, Facts, Ancestry

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• Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

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  Cities, Growth, Tools

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• It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

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  Predictions, Crux, Ability

  Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.6, Macmillan

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• In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

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  School, People, United States

  "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

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  Believe, Brain, Clue

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• Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

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  Running, Reality, Trying

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