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

—Marvin Minsky

About Marvin Minsky

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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American mathematician who conducted research in the cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Minsky joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of...

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

—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

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

—Marvin Minsky

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

—Marvin Minsky

More quotations tagged with “television”

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

—Kurt Vonnegut

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

—Eric Sevareid

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