Marvin Minsky Quotes
For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this 'negative meta-knowledge' - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.
Quotes to Explore
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.
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If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.
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Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
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For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this 'negative meta-knowledge' - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.
