"In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses. You have about 1,000-trillion synapses - 10 to the 15, it's a very big number."

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Geoffrey Hinton

#Numbers Quotes #Brain Quotes #Connections Quotes

“What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.”
“It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.”
“When Allen Ginsberg was still alive, he was was an artist, but he was very local. He was just another wing-nut in the neighborhood and he was very accessible. You'd see him in Tompkins Square Park or in the local delicatessen, in one of the greasy spoon restaurants on First Avenue or a Chinese restaurant.”
“We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.”
“Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will”
“Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.”
“You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.”
“I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.”

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