Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky: “What surprises me is how few people have been working on higher-level theories of how thinking works. That’s been a big disappointment…I think people look around to see what field is currently popular, and then waste their lives on that. If it’s popular, then to my mind you don’t want to work on it.” and “Unless you understand something in several different ways, you are likely to get stuck…I made up a word for it: “panalogy.” When you represent something, you should represent it in several different ways, so that you can switch from one to another without thinking.”