Marvin Minsky Quotes

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Different strokes for different folks.

It's a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

All coaches have different ways of working.

One person might be able to learn by reading, another will have a good audio memory, and another will make notes in different colored pens. I have a more multi sensory memory - I remember what I was doing when I learnt it and where I was.

It's interesting to see how a lot of people don't see the other side of the coin. Since they haven't been there. Someone might suggest your character say something that they'd never say. It doesn't occur to them that there are people who think differently about something, from another perspective.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."