"There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing."

-- Marvin Minsky

#Block Quotes #People Quotes #Robots Quotes

“Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”

Source : Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”
“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.”
“Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.”
“The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.”
“The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.”
“I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.”
“And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."”
“Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.”

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