#ow

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#adds #bit #coloured #day #else

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. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#architectures #cannot #choose #different #fine

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

— Marvin Minsky

#base #direction #headed #i #i think

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

#been #big #buried #clock #could

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. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#came #ever #find #good #graphics

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#college #exaggerated #fly #grow #grow up

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#cultivates #each #fruit #grow #him

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#anymore #care #could #good #good person

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#decay #give #naked #off #people

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#because #convinced #extermination #fighting #means