Marvin Minsky Quotes
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
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'If you run before God, you cannot run after God.'
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I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.
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Your righteous eyes, your laconic trigger-fingers people the streets with villains: as you move, the air in front of you blossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroic trail of desolation: beer bottles slaughtered by the side of the road, bird- skulls bleaching in the sunset.
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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I love blocking people. I'm not afraid to block anybody.
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I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.
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We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
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I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.
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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up … I cannot be on the way up again. … What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I'm not interesting in being a dead (expletive) hero. … So forget 'em, forget 'em.'
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
