Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky | |
... in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being ... The machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after that its powers will be incalculable ... -- Marvin Minsky, LIFE Magazine, November 20, 1970 | |
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. -- Marvin Minsky | |
In the beginning, I was made. I didn't ask to be made. No one consulted with me or considered my feelings in this matter. But if it brought some passing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their way through life's mournful jungle, then so be it. - Marvin the Paranoid Android, From Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts | |
"Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the blink again." -- Marvin The Paranoid Android | |
Life. Don't talk to me about life. - Marvin the Paranoid Android | |
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android | |
"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." -- Marvin the paranoid android | |
"Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android | |
Marvin the Nature Lover spied a grasshopper hopping along in the grass, and in a mood for communing with nature, rare even among full-fledged Nature Lovers, he spoke to the grasshopper, saying: "Hello, friend grasshopper. Did you know they've named a drink after you?" "Really?" replied the grasshopper, obviously pleased. "They've named a drink Fred?" | |
"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." -- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | |
For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz. | |
"`The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.'" - Marvin reflecting back on his 576,000,003,579 year career as Milliways' car park attendent. | |
"`That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.'" - Marvin's first ever compliment about anybody. | |
If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin Kitman | |
Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin?? Don't you know your own ZIPCODE? |