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“A man's life is like a story, told badly by a fool, whose shouts and strong words make it seem important. But it means nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Turing proved, mathematically, that if you choose the right set of rules for the CPU and give it an indefinitely long tape to work with, it can perform any definable set of operations in the universe. It would be one of many equivalent machines now called Universal Turing Machines.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“is all 1’s and 0’s underneath, and any Turing Machine can be programmed to handle it. Information processing is information processing is information processing. All digital computers are logically equivalent.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Turing Test: if a computer can fool a human interrogator into thinking that it too is a person, then by definition the computer must be intelligent. And so, with the Turing Test as his measuring stick and the Turing Machine as his medium, Turing helped launch the field of AI. Its central dogma: the brain is just another kind of computer.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“A CPU is just a collection of logic gates.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“irrespective of the lack of biological evidence, that brains were just another kind of computer.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Deep Blue didn’t win by being smarter than a human; it won by being millions of times faster than a human. Deep Blue had no intuition.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Chinese Room”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Thus, no matter how cleverly a computer is designed to simulate intelligence by producing the same behavior as a human, it has”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“we needed to understand what “understanding”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“understanding cannot be measured by external behavior”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“You can’t simulate a brain without first understanding what it does.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“As inspired by Alan Turing, intelligence equals behavior.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“incorrect assumptions keep us from seeing the correct answer.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“We demonstrate human intelligence through our speech, writing, and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point. Intelligence is something that is happening in your head. Behavior is an optional ingredient. This is not intuitively obvious, but it’s not hard to understand either.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“History shows that the best solutions to scientific problems are simple and elegant.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Being human and being intelligent are separate matters.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected,”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Remember, the brain is in a dark quiet box with no knowledge of anything other than the time-flowing patterns on its input fibers.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Truly random thoughts don’t exist.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“The AI strategy is implausible.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Your brain has made a model of the world and is constantly checking that model against reality.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Science is itself an exercise in prediction.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“After all, behavior is the ultimate determiner of survival.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“feedback plays a minor or “modulatory” role in the brain.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Shakespeare’s metaphors are the paragon of creativity. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” “Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.” “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“To this day I still hear people claim that computers should adapt to users. This isn’t always true. Our brains prefer systems that are consistent and predictable, and we like learning new skills.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“For engineering managers, challenges emerge unexpected from a hundred small decisions, with few rules and no”
― Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

“For engineering managers, challenges emerge unexpected from a hundred small decisions, with few rules and no promises.”
― Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

“consistency is a precondition of fairness.”
― Will Larson, An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management