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

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.