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

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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.

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

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