#tan

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

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. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#blocks #building #captured #deep #failure

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#i #kind #last #last year #line

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#brain #i #i think #important #keep

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#circumstance #i #myself #painter #thought

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#americana #catching #discovered #hamburgers #i

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#censoring #i #me #moral #old-fashioned

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant