I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
Marvin MinskyWhat magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.
Marvin MinskyAll intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
Marvin MinskyEach part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.
Marvin Minsky