You Don't Understand Anything Until You Learn

A Computer Is Like A Violin. You Can Imagine A Novice Trying first A Phonograph And Then A Violin. The Latter, He Says, Sounds Terrible. That Is The Argument We Have Heard From Our Humanists And Most Of Our Computer Scientists. Computer Programs Are Good, They Say, For Particular Purposes, But They Aren’t flexible. Neither Is A Violin, Or A Typewriter, Until You Learn How To Use It.

In General, We’re Least Aware Of What Our Minds Do Best.

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.

Theorems Often Tell Us Complex Truths About The Simple Things, But Only Rarely Tell Us Simple Truths About The Complex Ones. To Believe Otherwise Is Wishful Thinking Or "mathematics Envy."

There Are Three Basic Approaches To Ai: Case-based, Rule-based, And Connectionist Reasoning.