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John McCarthy

mathematician, computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, artificial intelligence researcher

1927 – 2011

John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence, and part of just a small group of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 1960s. He co-authored the proposal for the Dartmouth workshop which coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), led the development of the symbolic programming language family Lisp and had a large influence in the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and created garbage collection.

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If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

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Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

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