Douglas Lenat quotes

Douglas Lenat quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.”
-- Douglas Lenat

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“Intelligence is ten million rules.”
-- Douglas Lenat

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“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”
“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.”
“War is the greatest failure of mankind.”
“Mankind is unamendable.”
“There is only one hope for mankind â€” and that is democratic Socialism.”

Source : Aneurin Bevan's Statement on his resignation in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. April 23, 1951.
“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”
“Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.”
“The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.”

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