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• In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
  What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe....
• In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
  "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe....
• Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs.
  This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice....
• A novice asked the master: "I have a program that sometimes runs and sometimes aborts.
  I have followed the rules of programming, yet I am totally baffled....
• A novice asked the master: "I have a program that sometime runs and sometimes aborts.
  I have followed the rules of programming, yet I am totally baffled....
• Eager to know the result of a physics exam he had taken, my brother asked his teacher, "How far am I from making an 'A' in this course?
  Replied the instructor, "Do you want that in light years?...
• A master was asked the question, "What is the Way?" by a curious monk.
  "It is right before your eyes," said the master. "Why do I not see it for myself?...
• I bet the human brain is a kludge." -- Marvin Minsky