I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.
I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.
The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.
I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.