Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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The day is different
A new mountain in time
Eternal but crumbling

"There is only one way of thinking in cinema: poetically. Only with this approach can the irreconcilable and the paradoxical be resolved, and the cinema be an adequate means of expression of the author's thoughts and feelings.

The true cinema image is built upon the destruction of genre, upon conflict with it. And the ideals that the artist apparently seeks to express here obviously do not lend themselves to being confined within the parameters of a genre." - Tarkovsky

What truly distinguishes a great mind from a mediocre one? Are there such distinctions? Can the range of human intelligence inform our understanding of machine intelligence? Concepts, expressed correctly, should be universally understandable. This is nobility of truth and expression; if it is what it appears to be it achieves its purpose.

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