Marvin Minsky Quotes

We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.

Marvin Minsky

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• 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'.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • China

• Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Call
  • Phone

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Going
  • Surgeon

• In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Friends
  • Free
  • Politics

• '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.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Different
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Model

• 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.

  

  James McCartney
  • Up
  • Live
  • Dad

• In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Single
  • Emotional
  • Journey

• 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.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

  

  Lew Wallace
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • People
  • World
  • Technology

• I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Business
  • Freedom
  • Dirty

• I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Fun
  • Success
  • Chicago

• We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Real
  • School
  • High

• We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Environment
  • Problems

• The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

  

  Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda
  • Mind
  • Impossible
  • Put

• I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.

  

  William Joyce
  • Farewell
  • Hitler
  • Deutschland

• We find things that do not fit into familiar frameworks hard to understand – such things seem meaningless.

  

  Marvin Minsky