Terry Winograd

1946– · American professor

Topics: artificial intelligence, programming, software design, software engineering

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

  — Terry Winograd

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

  — Terry Winograd

• In designing tools we are designing ways of being.

  — Terry Winograd

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

  — Terry Winograd