Marvin Minsky Quotes

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

What you see is what you see.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.