Lenat Quotes & Sayings

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

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. — Marvin Minsky

Intelligence is ten million rules. — Douglas Lenat

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. — Betty Smith

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky. — Nicole Krauss

Having people like that in your service degrades such service, when they are going around the world like beggars." Such was the advice from her Majesty, Empress of the German Empire, on the subject of hiring Wolfgang Mozart. — Robert Spaethling

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many. — Cesar Pelli

When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map. — Sam Kean

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

The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines. — Kelly Preston

There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared. — Douglas McGrath