"An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind."

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Marvin Minsky

“There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.”
“Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”

Source : Washington Post 18 July 1973, p. A 25
“If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.”
“Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!”
“People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.”
“Happiness is a way of praying.”
“I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.”
“Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.”

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