Marvin Minsky Quotes

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Marvin Minsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016

Topics

CarRulesNo SenseNeedRightLeft

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Jim Capaldi

MorningWritingSongWonderLiving

The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

Jen Lancaster

BalanceBelieveRestingI Believe

I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.

Andrea Bocelli

PowerI AmSongVoiceArtistThanks

I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network effect businesses are very attractive businesses.

Jeff Jordan

ThinkYouLookThreeAttractive

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

Steven Berkoff

PeopleAmericanSheDirectorSeen

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Trent Reznor

GoodNot Good EnoughSayingVoice

I've been a big blagger all my life.

Rupert Friend

LifeMy LifeBigBeenAll My Life

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Mary Wortley Montagu

DiamondsLibertyChainsPrefer

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

Roseanne Barr

LifeLiveMy LifeNowMoviesLiving

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

Michael Polanyi

CommunicationKnowledgeFeelingsTell

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's?

Michael Korda

MottoSayLondonThroughJuneBeen

What I will remember most from my time in NATO is meeting children in the countries where I've gone to, to Moscow and to Kiev, I've met school children.

Lord Robertson

ChildrenTimeSchoolRememberWill

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