Marvin Minsky Quotes

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

Marvin Minsky

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Good
  • Think
  • Competition

• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Change
  • Band

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Face
  • System
  • Corrupt

• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • You
  • Impact
  • Selling

• In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Time
  • You
  • Guitar

• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • She
  • Air

• I was always the Southern gentleman.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Start
  • Kitchen

• At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Boxing
  • Big
  • Then

• The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Fear
  • Evil

• You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • You
  • Motivational

• Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Cancer
  • Show
  • Bigger

• A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Right
  • Someone

• Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Progress
  • Race

• I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Work
  • Film
  • Loved

• Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

  

  Nancy Fox
  • Live
  • Think
  • Choose

• Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)

  

  E. O. Wilson

• A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Die
  • Wish
  • Understanding

• How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

  

  Marvin Minsky