Carlos Gershenson

1978– · Mexican researcher

Topics: learning, complexity, creativity

• Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...

  — Carlos Gershenson

• All ideas are valid in the context they were created.

  — Carlos Gershenson

• It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.

  — Carlos Gershenson

• The question is not whether something is wrong with subjectivity. We are embedded in it, so we can only deal with it, or be blind and attempt to ignore it.

  — Carlos Gershenson

• Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.

  — Carlos Gershenson

• If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.

  — Carlos Gershenson

• Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it.

  — Carlos Gershenson

• Nothing is free of its own limits.

  — Carlos Gershenson