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" The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. "

Francis Picabia

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" There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. "

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Douglas Coupland

" Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. "

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