“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.” ThinkingWayWantShouldLooksKindTwoBookIdeasDifferentHardUseProblemOpinionWonderfulWrittenMagicFiguresHigherMachinesIntelligentMethodSolveDevicesArtificial IntelligenceDifferent KindsBulletsAdministrativeIntelligent Machines Author:Marvin Minsky
“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.” ThinkingWayTwoHandsTogetherGenerationsMagicParticularSmartMachinesMethodSomedayArtificial IntelligenceImprovingBeing SmartMaybe Someday Author:Marvin Minsky
“Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.” WayTwoRealityUniverseCommonTalkingMagicMethodCompatibleWay Of Talking Author:Neil Gaiman
“Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.” LanguageGreaterMagicTransformationMethodMediumsPhenomenonRitualSymbolicParcel Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.” YearsHas BeensViewsImpossibleMagicModernMethodAncientPoint Of ViewStrikesFlightIsolationAviationSparksAircraftCollisionAccessibilityModern History Book:NORTH TO THE ORIENT Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT
“The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.” MeanHas BeensWaitingProcessUnderstandingDifferencesResultsCasesMeditationMagicEffectsPositionDrugEthicsMethodMedicineCriticalDietsSubstitutesRegimesNevertheless Book:The training and work of an initiate Source: The training and work of an initiate
“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.” MenWorldHumansSometimesUseRealityEarthOrderSocialImaginationMagicMaterialsMethodPatternsPossessionArchitectureAssTriumphArchitectBad AssBadassFrameworkArchitecture And DesignHuman ImaginationGeometricArchitecture DesignArchitecture And Art Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.” TodayUsedMagicEffectsMethodMagicianMagic Tricks Author:Dai Vernon