When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
Marvin MinskyComputer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
Marvin MinskyA computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ๏ฌrst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they arenโt ๏ฌexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.
Marvin Minsky