Marvin Minsky Quotes

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Marvin Minsky

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• I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• I think a person has to just be herself.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Think
  • Just
  • Just Be

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'

  

  Ian Gomez
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • American
  • Problem
  • Border

• The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Women
  • Best
  • Motherhood

• None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future

• I'm not trying to say,That I'm smelling of roses, But when will we tire,Of putting shit up our noses.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Trying

• I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.

  

  Diplo
  • Couple

• Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a serious disincentive from embarking on really important, vital projects.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • World
  • Important
  • Serious

• Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Time
  • Poetry

• A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • God
  • Friends
  • Universe

• Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • She
  • Girl
  • Sky

• Life is a very emotional experience.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Emotional

• French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Culture

• What can I say? I feel good when I'm wearing heels. I feel sexier, attractive.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Good

• I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • Walking

• You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

  

  Marvin Minsky