Marvin Fey

"Society of Mind ... leads us to expect to encounter incomprehensible representations at every level of the mind. A typical agent does little more than exploit other agents' abilities---hence most of our agents accomplish their job knowing virtually nothing of how it is done."

Minsky on the problem of interpretability in neural networks: "I suspect that our societies and hierarchies of sub-systems have evolved ways to evade the problem, by arranging for some of our systems to learn to "model" what some of our other systems do"

An essay from Marvin Minsky, 1990 full of thoughtful comments on the Symbolic vs. Connectionist tension http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/SymbolicVs.Connectionist.html …

The person that knows best what is good for you is ultimately yourself, so take every piece of advice lightly and don't be afraid to disregard it if you don't like it. Same goes for this one.

One thing that's happened to me a lot: thinking there is no solution yet to this or that problem and then stumbling upon it while looking through literature. Synchronization of knowledge across different research areas takes almost longer than creating it in the first place.

Intelligence finds the known in the unknown

Simplicity is the final achievement. - Frederic Chopin