Quotes from David Parnas

Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Copy and paste is a design error.