Wisdom Quotes

"Do you know what it means to find an error in a machine of this sort? It does not mean that there is something wrong with the machine."

"As soon as one knows that a thing must happen, that thing is then much more of a matter to be taken seriously."

"May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?"

"We must not suppose that his legislating or reasoning or calculating by machinery is a dream of wild imagination."

"A machine can be made to follow certain patterns of thought - but not all patterns."

"Providing he is supplied with an adequate system of logical instructions, a machine should be able to do anything that a human computer can do."

"In some cases, the machine might learn so well that it could teach its programmers new things."

"The idea that a program is 'thinking' is a matter of perspective and definition."

"The unthinking routines of machines can be the foundation for more complex and adaptive behaviors."

"The definition of machine intelligence must be operational, not philosophical."

"The machine-mind relationship might be understood through the lens of game-playing and rule-following."

"What makes a process 'thinking'? Perhaps it is merely the combination of operations performed rapidly and in sequence."

"To understand a sentence is to know what would make it true."

"We should abandon the search for necessary and sufficient conditions."

"Understanding requires grasping the use of a term in context."

"Truth conditions must be recognizable by speakers of a language."

"Coherence theories of truth have limited application."

"Meaning emerges from communal linguistic practices."

"Meaning is public, not private or mental."

"Quantification over abstract entities requires justification."

"Predicates do not have meanings independent of use."

"Rational discourse requires shared linguistic norms."

"Being is fundamentally dependent on human conceptualization."

"The concept of natural kind terms needs revision."

"The logic of ordinary language reveals hidden structure."

"Truth emerges through communal deliberation."

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."

"Wisdom is the fruit of philosophy."

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."