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This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#art #art college #college #conceived #end

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#comment #effect #four #hard #hundred

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#base #direction #headed #i #i think

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#clarke #doomed #evolution #humans #kubrick

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

— Marvin Minsky

#been #computer #designed #doing #either

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed! ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#been #big #buried #clock #could

Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#came #ever #find #good #graphics

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. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#blocks #building #captured #deep #failure