Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

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

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

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

When 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.

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.