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One Quotes by Marvin Minsky
- Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
- If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends…
- We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting…
- How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on…
- Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On…
- If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
- You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle