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

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• 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

• 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

• A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• As I found while leading special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the problem is interconnected, your organization must be, as well.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Organization

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Hands
  • Feet
  • March

• The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • America
  • War
  • History

• Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Believe
  • History
  • Forever

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

  

  Marvin Minsky