Quotes About McCarthy

dont know. I know that you can make a good case that all of human sorrow is grounded in injustice. And that sorrow is what is left when rage is expended and found to be impotent.

In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.

He'd bivouacked on the north side of the town

This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands.

The laws of mathematics supposedly derive from the rules of logic. But there is no argument for the rules of logic that does not presuppose them.

The flowered crown to all other abominations. A walkin plague in your own house. That's what's been

There was a paper bag on the night table that held things he'd

Beware gentle knight. There is no greater monster than reason.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse, only Suttree didnt say so.

I can only assume that fresh demons have materialized out of your troubled karma.

I'm goin to tell you right now, cousin. This is a heathenish bunch.

Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy's vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay's vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and processing power.

John McCarthy, a Santa Claus lookalike who coined the term artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy

1956 conference at Dartmouth organized by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, where the field of artificial intelligence was launched.

Earlier that year, at the hundredth anniversary of his Harvard club, a member was talking about the spirit of Harvard College and saying how glad he was that the school had produced neither "a Joseph McCarthy or an Alger Hiss." On hearing that coupling, Kennedy jumped from his chair. "How dare you compare the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!" and left the room. As for his father, the very thought

If you understand McCarthy's eval, you understand more than just a stage in the history of languages. These ideas are still the semantic core of Lisp today. So studying McCarthy's original paper shows us, in a sense, what Lisp really is. It's not something that McCarthy designed so much as something he discovered. It's not intrinsically a language for AI or for rapid prototyping, or any other task at that level. It's what you get (or one thing you get) when you try to axiomatize computation.

McCarthy decided that it was time to take that idea and turn it into a whole new language for AI.§ He and his students soon took to calling it List Processor, or Lisp.

Lisp was John McCarthy's invention.

Stanford was out; John McCarthy was as unenthusiastic about the network as ever.

She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.