"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."

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Source : "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.

Arthur C. Clarke

#Good Life Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Intelligence Quotes

“I don't diet per se, I don't weigh myself, I don't look at a number - I haven't done that in probably twenty-five years. I just try to do one of the green drinks nearly every single day, and it's been a long time since I've been sick or anything, so I think it really works.”
“I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.”
“The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.”
“Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.”
“The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,”
“Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.”

Source : "10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games" by James Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.
“I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.”
“Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.”

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