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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first."

"If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all."

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."

"Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song."

"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

"Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop."

"Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's."

"The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it."

"A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious."

"But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice."
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