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

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

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

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

Minds are simply what brains do.

In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.