He was truly a brilliant and humble man, who wrote so much influential and interesting stuff!
Here&#x27;s one of my favorite papers by Marvin Minsky:<p>Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious<p>Marvin Minsky, MIT<p>Abstract: Freud&#x27;s theory of jokes explains how they overcome the
mental &quot;censors&quot; that make it hard for us to think &quot;forbidden&quot;
thoughts.  But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense
as for other comical subjects.  In this essay I argue that the
different forms of humor can be seen as much more similar, once we
recognize the importance of knowledge about knowledge and,
particularly, aspects of thinking concerned with recognizing and
suppressing bugs -- ineffective or destructive thought processes.
When seen in this light, much humor that at first seems pointless, or
mysterious, becomes more understandable.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.media.mit.edu&#x2F;~minsky&#x2F;papers&#x2F;jokes.cognitive.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.media.mit.edu&#x2F;~minsky&#x2F;papers&#x2F;jokes.cognitive.txt</a>