"If I think about the mind in terms of a neural network, it will help me answer the questions about the mind that I'm trying to answer." —— 如果我从神经网络的角度来思考心智，这将帮助我回答我试图回答的关于心智的问题。
"You should think in terms of how you can adjust connection weights to solve a problem. You define your problem and then you figure out how the adjustment of the connection weights will solve the problem." —— 你应该思考如何通过调整连接权重来解决问题。你定义你的问题，然后找出调整连接权重如何解决它。
"The knowledge that the system exploits is in the connections between the units. There isn't a separate dictionary." —— 系统所利用的知识存在于单元之间的连接中。没有单独的字典。
"I would call myself a radical emergentist connectionist rather than eliminative connectionist, because I want to acknowledge that these higher level kinds of aspects of our cognition are real, but they don't exist as such." —— 我会称自己为一个激进的涌现主义连接主义者，而非消除主义连接主义者，因为我想承认我们认知的这些更高层面是真实的，但它们并非独立存在。
"I think of Fellini in this context. I think of others who have appreciated the role of magic, of actual trickery in creating illusions that move us." —— 在这种语境下，我会想到费里尼。我会想到其他那些欣赏魔法、欣赏那些创造动人幻觉的真正戏法所扮演角色的人。
