Lenat Quotes

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

Marvin Minsky

#2. Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

Douglas Lenat

#4. Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

David Walton

#5. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

CLAMP

#6. Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Intuition is a one-way communication from God, who never seems inclined to satisfy our curiosity, perhaps because, given the chance, every one of us would be like a child on a family road trip, endlessly asking Are we there yet? or the equivalent.

Anonymous

#8. Synergy is the only true way to world peace. Any sort of division will cripple the beast of unity.

Suzy Kassem

#9. the plight of being old: clearly recalling what it was like to act voluntarily and enjoy life as it came, now trapped in a frame that forbade anything except slow cautious movements

John Brunner

#10. There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

Jose Saramago

#11. I think I might die if I don't kiss you right now. A real-life kiss.

Mari Mancusi

#12. There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Ian Somerhalder

#13. Intelligence is ten million rules.

Douglas Lenat

#14. You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.

Steve Martin

#15. Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.

Douglas Lenat