"Your brain receives, stores, and processes information, dispenses results, and controls your biological equipment. When properly programmed, computers can do likewise, except that they control electromechanical rather than biological equipment. Beyond these functional similarities, computers and brains have virtually nothing in common."

-- John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

#Brain Quotes #Information Quotes #Common Quotes

“Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.”

Source : John Seely Hart (1862). “Mistakes of Educated Men”, p.49
“what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.51, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.”
“While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.”
“Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.”
“Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.”
“Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgement,' Gloria had said. 'It's the sum of all your judgements that counts.”
“I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.”

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