John McCarthy

Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do. We shall...say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficient wide class of immediate consequences of anything it is told and what it already knows

artificial intelligence


John McCarthy

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

attitude


John McCarthy

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

failure


John McCarthy

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

history


John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

intelligence


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