David Marr Quotes

#1. When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky

#2. Abundance is the natural state of the universe
of this there can be
no doubt. Just as the number of stars in the heavens or drops of water in the ocean is beyond counting, so are the spiritual and material blessings that have been prepared for us.

Douglas Bloch

#3. The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.

John Donne

#4. A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

Carl Sagan

#5. The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

Steven Galloway

#6. Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

Auliq Ice

#7. If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.

J.M. Barrie

#8. Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

Frank Rich

#9. She had lived the idea of spreading truth like a fire, like touching a lit candle to another candle and watching its flame come to life, until the whole world was bright and you saw everything clear.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#10. As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth ... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Emily Carr

#11. You shy, Francesca?" Javier asks me later on.
I shake my head. "Not really." I'm just sad, I want to say. And I'm lonely.

Melina Marchetta

#12. The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Richard Francis Burton

#13. It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

Lois Lowry

#14. He stumbled and told the truth one night: workers had lost protections under WorkChoices.

David Marr

#15. The supreme test of service is this: For whom am I doing this? Much that we call service to Christ is not such at all ... If we are doing this for Christ, we shall not care for human reward or even recognition.

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#16. I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

Lawrence Welk