I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
Marvin MinskySpeed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
Marvin MinskyCommon 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.
Marvin MinskyComputer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
Marvin Minsky