I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
Marvin MinskyWhen David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
Marvin MinskyBut the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
Marvin MinskyAnyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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