Quotes About Learning

So the real answer to any fundamental question is experience itself.

When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot.

As long as you're green you're growing, as soon as you're ripe you start to rot

The lesson of these new insights is that our brain is entirely like any of our physical muscles: Use it or lose it.

The genes describe certain rules and constraints for patterns of interneuronal connections, but the actual connections we have as adults are the result of a self-organizing process based on our learning. The final result—who we are—is deeply influenced by both nature (genes) and nurture (experience).

T]here are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence.

If the teacher is correct only 60 percent of the time, the student neural net will still learn its lessons with an accuracy approaching 100 percent.

Artificial "neural nets" are based on Hebb's model of neuronal learning.

Furthermore, neurons are extremely slow; electronic circuits are at least a million times faster. Once a computer achieves a human level of ability in understanding abstract concepts, recognizing patterns, and other attributes of human intelligence, it will be able to apply this ability to a knowledge base of all human-acquired—and machine-acquired—knowledge.

you create your brain from the input you get.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY

Most major universities now provide extensive courses online, many of which are free. MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative has been a leader in this effort. MIT

In order for a digital neocortex to learn a new skill, it will still require many iterations of education, just as a biological neocortex does, but once a single digital neocortex somewhere and at some time learns something, it can share that knowledge with every other digital neocortex without delay. We can each have our own private neocortex extenders in the cloud, just as we have our own private stores of personal data today.

Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Sabes que todo lo mejor vendrá con los cambios pero tienes miedo al cerrar la puerta porque ya habías aprendido a manejar las antiguas desgracias, suele pasar, no es nada extraño, un héroe sin miedo es un héroe muerto.

the greatest of their teachings has been the importance of looking to the forest itself for answers.

It's so important to step outside your comfort zone because that's usually when you learn best. I think it's really important that you do things like that for yourself – no adult with you, just you and your own self-belief. Sadly, I think many parents would be too afraid to let their children make a journey like that these days. Having

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

We get into wisdom the hard way, through the Lord's instruction and discipline, through being chastened and corrected.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.