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You can only understand a complicated thing by starting with a dumbell theory.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 11, 1979
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"Is" is the verb for when you don't want a verb.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 11, 1979
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You've heard these jokes about getting a doctorate for studying the use of semicolons. We're in that business.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 10, 1979
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What's the relation between how I think and how I think I think?
— Marvin Minsky
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April 10, 1979
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There's lots of ways of getting this information, if you're actually alive.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 10, 1979
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It wasn't necessary for me to finish because you know that the end of it was going to be about the end of it.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 10, 1979
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I usually use notes to remember what not to say.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 10, 1979
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I cannot talk and write at the same time.
— Marvin Minsky
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April 10, 1979
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If you spend a lot of time building up the mathematics of the model, by the time you're done, you're tired.
— Jim Donahue
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March 3, 1979
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You can easily show that any space you can imagine is buried within D-infinity somewhere.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 27, 1979
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I'll call this phi and psi again just to be confusing.
— Jim Donahue
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Feb. 27, 1979
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One reason that concept is peculiar is that in mathematics one always deals with extensional objects, and thus never discusses them, while in computer science one rarely deals with extensional objects, and thus never discusses them.
— Bob Constable
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Feb. 23, 1979
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