Allen Newell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.
-- Allen Newell

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The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
-- Allen Newell

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The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
-- Allen Newell

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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
-- Allen Newell

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In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
-- Allen Newell

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[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.
-- Allen Newell

#Would Be #Levels #Problem

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.
The problem with a politicianâ€™s quote on Facebook is you donâ€™t know whether or not they really said it.
The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up
I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

Allen Newell famous quotes

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