Gary Marcus Quotes

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

Gary Marcus

• One Thing
• Lemons
• Proclaim

“It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.”

Gary Marcus

• Learning
• Process
• Genes

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

Gary Marcus

• Knowing
• Minds
• Noble

“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”

Gary Marcus

• Combination
• Effect
• Genes

There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

Gary Marcus

• Worried
• Unknowns
• Knowns

Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

Gary Marcus

• Language
• Communicate
• Possibilities

“One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.”

Gary Marcus

• Human
• Differences
• Genome

“The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational.”

Gary Marcus

• Revolution
• Technological
• Organizational

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

Gary Marcus

• Mind
• Machines
• Upload

This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.

Gary Marcus

• Looks
• Minds
• Universal