Marvin Minsky Quotes
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.
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Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
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Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.
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I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.
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The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.
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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
