"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

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Source : Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

Alan Turing

#Powerful Quotes #Brain Quotes #President Quotes

“Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”
“When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.”
“That's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.”

Source : Dr. Kevin Leman (2009). “Born to Win: Keeping Your Firstborn Edge without Losing Your Balance”, p.32, Baker Books
“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”
“People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.”
“I think my English is bad.”
“We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river.”
“I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.”

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