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

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

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Eventually, robots will make everything.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first 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 aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.