Marvin Minsky Quotes

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.