You dont understand anything until you learn it more than one way. — Marvin Minsky

"In todays computer science curricula … almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and generally trivial fragments of "optimization of logic design" — the latter often in situations where the art of heuristic programming has far outreached the special-case "theories" so grimly taught and tested — and invocations about programming style almost sure to be outmoded before the student graduates."

"Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to discover that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed."

"Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer."

"Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of "cognitive censors" to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past."

"Questioning ones own "top-level" goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile — unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?"

"Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children."