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“Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”

Marvin Minsky book Society of Mind

Source: The Society of Mind (1987), p. 308

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

Mat Buckland, AI Techniques for Game Programming (2002), Cincinnati, OH: Premier Press, 36 ISBN 1-931841-08-X.
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“Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.”

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)

“For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this "negative meta-knowledge" — about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful — may be a large portion of all we know.”

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)

“The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompaniment.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of "cognitive censors" to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past.”

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)

“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”

Scientific American (October 1994) http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/sciam.inherit.html

“Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.”

Marvin Minsky book The Emotion Machine

The Emotion Machine (2006)

“This book… too, is a society — of many small ideas. Each by itself is only common sense, yet when we join enough of them we explain the strangest mysteries of mind.”

Marvin Minsky book Society of Mind

Prologue
The Society of Mind (1987)

“Our eyes are always flashing sudden flicks of different pictures to our brains, yet none of that saccadic action leads to any sense of change or motion in the world; each thing reposes calmly in its "place!"”

...What makes us such innate Copernicans?
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“Hearing music is like viewing scenery and… when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“Changing the states of many agents grossly alters behavior, while changing only a few just perturbs the overall disposition a little.”

K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)

“I maintain that attitudes do really precede propositions, feelings come before facts.”

K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)

“Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle.”

Marvin Minsky book Society of Mind

Source: The Society of Mind (1987), Ch.1

“If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain cancer, because it means that some small part of your mind has figured out how to turn off all the other things.”

In "The Many Minds of Marvin Minsky (R.I.P.)" by John Horgan, Scientific American Blogs, 26 January 2016 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-many-minds-of-marvin-minsky-r-i-p/

“An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.”

TED talk (February 2003) http://blog.ted.com/2008/09/health_populati.php

“Each subsociety of mind must have its own internal epistemology and phenomenology, with most details private, not only from the central processes, but from one another.”

K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)