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Marvin Minsky

"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!"

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"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!"

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Donna Grant

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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Donna Grant

"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."

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Donna Grant

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

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Donna Grant

"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

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Donna Grant

"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."

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Donna Grant

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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Donna Grant

"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

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Donna Grant

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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Donna Grant

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

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Donna Grant

"Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out."

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Marvin Minsky
"I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning."

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Marvin Minsky
"If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do."

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Marvin Minsky
"There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing."

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Marvin Minsky
"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!"

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Marvin Minsky
"Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more."

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Marvin Minsky
"The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems."

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Marvin Minsky
"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!"

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Marvin Minsky
"By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen."

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Marvin Minsky
"Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution."

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Marvin Minsky
"No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either."

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