Marvin Minsky Quotes
Innate sentic detectors could help by teaching children about their own affective states. For if distinct signals arouse specific states, the child can associate those signals with those states. Just knowing that such states exist, that is, having symbols for them, is half the battle.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
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Innate sentic detectors could help by teaching children about their own affective states. For if distinct signals arouse specific states, the child can associate those signals with those states. Just knowing that such states exist, that is, having symbols for them, is half the battle.
