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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When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
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I love technology. I love the Internet.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
