Bill So

“When you ask yourself, What does an intelligent system do?, it is intuitively obvious to think in terms of behavior. We demonstrate human intelligence through our speech, writing, and actions, right? Yes, but only to a point. Intelligence is something that is happening in your head. Behavior is an optional ingredient. This is not intuitively obvious, but it’s not hard to understand either.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

“Code will be used in ways we cannot anticipate, in ways it was never designed for, and for longer than it was ever intended. —Joshua Corman”
― Dominica Degrandis, Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

“The problem that Dijkstra recognized, early on, was that programming is hard, and that programmers don’t do it very well.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design

“There is a common misconception that the human brain is the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution. This may be true if we think of the entire nervous system. However, the human neocortex itself is a relatively new structure and hasn’t been around long enough to undergo much long-term evolutionary refinement.”
― Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines