I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.
The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.
Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
