Marvin Minsky

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

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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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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think.

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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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Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

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Quotes by Marvin Minsky