The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.