Marvin Minsky Quotes about Knowledge

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Education, Learning, Knowledge

"Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program". Book by Rebecca Herold, 2005.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

Real, Knowledge, Math

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.

Marvin Minsky

Believe, Knowledge, Thinking

"K-Linesː A Theory of Memory". Cognitive Science 4, 1980.

It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

Marvin Minsky

Knowledge, Expression, Example

"The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, 2006.