There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

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

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

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