Terry Winograd Quotes

born 1946 United States

Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program.

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The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

Seekers after the glitter of intelligence are misguided in trying to cast it in the base metal of computing.

In designing tools we are designing ways of being.

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (1986)

There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the schools is great, but it may be more important to put teachers in the schools.

A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it’s an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn’t have the intelligence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Terry Winograd (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.