Marvin Minsky Quotes

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

Marvin Minsky

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• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Heart
  • Pressure
  • Argument

• No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Government
  • Enough

• You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Law

• On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Love
  • Plan
  • Countries

• I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Home
  • House
  • Present

• I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Right

• Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Day
  • Artist

• As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Old

• Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

  

  Frances Wright
  • World
  • Change
  • Speak

• There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Me
  • Princess

• Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Mistake
  • Record

• 'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Country
  • Winning
  • Fire

• It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Voice

• When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Science
  • Reality

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Marriage
  • California
  • Divorce

• I have a reputation for being pretty much of a wild man.

  

  Bill Hunter
  • Pretty

• I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Horse
  • Dead
  • Slept

• Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

  

  Marvin Minsky