“We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.”

—  Marvin Minsky, book Society of Mind

The Society of Mind (1987)

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American cognitive scientist 1927–2016

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