Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.

An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.