#th

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#anything #done #fancied #haven #i

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#doctor #flight #getting #got #hours

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#adds #bit #coloured #day #else

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#architectures #cannot #choose #different #fine

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. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#comment #effect #four #hard #hundred

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#base #direction #headed #i #i think

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#been #computer #designed #doing #either

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#born #doing #free #i #thinker