"It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?"

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Source : "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.

Spider Robinson

#Couple Quotes #Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.”

Source : B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing
“If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.”
“One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.”
“You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.”
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement of the debate with William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, November 18, 2010)”
“God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!”
“I try to do things positive on my throat, but a couple things are negative like smoking and drinking heavily. I really don't know. There's no particular thing that I do that's beneficial - it just kinda works. I guess I'd say warming up every day before a performance is the biggest thing.”

Source : Source: www.theaureview.com
“Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.”

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