Jeff Hawkins famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Talking #Brain #Body
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Practice #Skills #Differences
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.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#School #People #United States
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Our World #Understanding #Looks
The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Keys #Artificial Intelligence #Representation
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.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Believe #Facts #Ancestry
It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Predictions #Crux #Ability
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.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Believe #Brain #Clue
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Two #Design #Brain
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.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Running #Reality #Trying
Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Confusion #Causes #Results
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.
-- Jeff Hawkins

#Brain #Foundation #Doe

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