All Intelligent Problem Solvers Are Subject To

Speed Is What Distinguishes Intelligence. No Bird Discovers How To Fly: Evolution Used A Trillion Bird-years To 'discover' That – Where Merely Hundreds Of Person-years Sufficed.

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.

General Fiction Is Pretty Much About Ways That People Get Into Problems And Screw Their Lives Up. Science Fiction Is About Everything Else.

Once The Computers Got Control, We Might Never Get It Back. We Would Survive At Their Sufferance. If We're Lucky, They Might Decide To Keep Us As Pets.

Each Part Of The Mind Sees Only A Little Of What Happens In Some Others, And That Little Is Swiftly Refined, Reformulated And "represented." We Like To Believe That These Fragments Have Meanings In Themselves - Apart From The Great Webs Of Structure From Which They Emerge - And Indeed This Illusion Is Valuable To Us Qua Thinkers - But Not To Us As Psychologists - Because It Leads Us To Think That Expressible Knowledge Is The First Thing To Study.