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Minsky, 6.868 Society of Mind

jhbrown@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jhbrown@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 17 01:57:41 1993

"I do watch television sometimes, in spite of myself, and learn what
mothers do."

"Perhaps pleasure just hurts the rest of you more.  Isn't that foolish."

(in reference to a small, apparently functionless piece of an overhead
projector)
"What is that?  It's so cute, because it has a little arrow pointing up
and another one pointing down."

"Typically, most psychologists try to emulate physicists.  It's called
physics-envy, to be technical about it."

"Zen works, if you're dumb enough."

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