Marvin Minsky Quotes

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Coffee

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Future
  • Growth
  • India

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Sad

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Life
  • May
  • True

• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• I either run or try to play basketball every day.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Basketball

• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Future
  • Serious
  • Child

• I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Goals
  • Interested
  • Anything

• It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • Simple
  • Violence

• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Future
  • Goals