Marvin Minsky Quotes
We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
Quotes to Explore
-
Good comedy is ageless.
-
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
-
I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
-
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
-
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
-
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
-
Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
-
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
-
I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
-
In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
-
'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
-
Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
-
It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
-
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
-
I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
-
If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.
-
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
-
Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.
-
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.
-
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
-
Auf eine ähnliche Weise sollen in der vollkommnen Litteratur alle Bücher nur Ein Buch seyn, und in einem solchen ewig werdenden Buche wird das Evangelium der Menschheit und der Bildung offenbart werden.
-
I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.
-
We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.
