Marvin Minsky Quotes

We have never been in danger of running out of resources, but we have encountered considerable dangers from people who say we are running out of resources and who say that human activities need to be constrained.

No one ever has the resources they need.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

Frankly, we don't have the resources to go everywhere and do everything.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

Since 1975, when I entered the Wharton Graduate School, I have belonged to a small group of economists who believe that the world does not contain a limited amount of physical resources. Quite the contrary, I believe that the world is a virtual cornucopia of physical resources.

Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But we will never run out of stories.

Problems are good, not bad. Welcome them and become the solution. When you have solved enough problems, people will thank you.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

I feel like what we love to do is solve problems. If it's easy to solve, we find a more difficult one. There's always a way. In our world, we can build stuff. We can build more sets than you could ever build in live-action. We can build more props just for custom angles or perspectives. We'll build special trees for that, paint a sky. There's really no limitations, except that you run out of time and money at some point.

Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.

We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources - it's a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so.

If orange trees grew all over the country, you couldn't sell oranges. Do you understand that? So, all our decision making is based upon scarcity or the availability of resources. If we have a shortage of any kind of resource, we put all the labs to work on making substitute materials. People always worry about 'What if we run out of a certain material?', but we have enough technology today to make thousands of different substitutes.

People who solve problems are happier.

Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.