"I bet the human brain is a kludge"

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Marvin Minsky

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“The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.”
“The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.”

Source : "Why I Published Those Cartoons". www.washingtonpost.com. February 19, 2006.
“In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.”
“He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. â€œI didnâ€™t ask for this. But I felt something in that back room with you, and itâ€™s stayed with me ever since. I want to be with you. I need to be with you.â€ His tone was both angry and helpless.”
“The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.”

Source : Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570
“Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.”
“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.”
“You'll never see the hacienda. It doesn't exist. The hacienda must be built.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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