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

— Marvin Minsky

Turing Award Lecture "Form and Content in Computer Science" (1969), in Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery 17 (2) (April 1970)

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American cognitive scientist 1927–2016

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