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

• I think, because of the lack of guaranteed contracts in the league, there's hesitancy to speaking your minds at times. But I feel like there could be a movement beginning where guys are feeling a little more comfortable talking about things that are important to them.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Important
  • Think
  • Feeling

• 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

• Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Own
  • Restaurant

• 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

• Failure is not a disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one... My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Failure
  • Son

• 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

• She Clinton has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones - we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Bad

• Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • May
  • Path

• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Proud

• What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Jews
  • Advise
  • Safe-conduct

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

  

  Marvin Minsky